Bye Bye McChrystalSo, what is so wrong with not wanting to open an email from a colleague or coworker or even a boss? And all of us at one time or another, have thought about one of our colleagues as being like a clown. But we do not say that out aloud and never ever before a journalist!
General Stanley Mc Chrystal perhaps got carried away in the devotion to his mission in Afghanistan as the top US military commander or may be was naïve to the tricky world of media. Or may be he did want to say all of what he said about the US Civilian Administration in that article in Rolling Stone magazine.
President Obama has often had to make tough and difficult decisions eversince he assumed office. The Gulf of Mexico oil spill matter has had him act stern and now General Stanley Mc Chrystal. President Obama sacked him despite a quick apology from the General. But his sacking does underscore the comment that it is something more than just being an” enormous mistake”on the part of the General as Robert Gates put it.
And while, President Obama claims that there is unity of vision in the US command on the mission in Afghanistan, we now know that this wasn’t the case! Mc Chrystal was following a strategy aimed at fewer civilian deaths in Afghanistan. McChrystal had succeeded in getting Obama send 30,000 additional troops to the country but at the same time he did not find the July 2011 troop withdrawal date any realistic.
People who have been sympathising with Mc Chrystal are also no longer in US good books. For example, Mr. Hamid Karzai, Afghan president.He has clearly said that replacing Mc Chrystal would not be good for peace and stability in his country. And it goes without saying that this replacement of the top military commander has come at a difficult time for the mission in Afghanistan, with Taliban quarters looking at it as a proof of the failing strategy of coalition troops in the country.
To make a choice between US democratic system requirements and factors that could lead to success at war, was something that has made Obama say that accepting Mc Chrystal’s offer to resign was a tough one to make. Saying, war is bigger than any one man,he decided in the favour of US National Security but doesn’t that have a stake in successful and logical conclusion of the Afghanistan mission?
General Stanley Mc Chrystal perhaps got carried away in the devotion to his mission in Afghanistan as the top US military commander or may be was naïve to the tricky world of media. Or may be he did want to say all of what he said about the US Civilian Administration in that article in Rolling Stone magazine.
President Obama has often had to make tough and difficult decisions eversince he assumed office. The Gulf of Mexico oil spill matter has had him act stern and now General Stanley Mc Chrystal. President Obama sacked him despite a quick apology from the General. But his sacking does underscore the comment that it is something more than just being an” enormous mistake”on the part of the General as Robert Gates put it.
And while, President Obama claims that there is unity of vision in the US command on the mission in Afghanistan, we now know that this wasn’t the case! Mc Chrystal was following a strategy aimed at fewer civilian deaths in Afghanistan. McChrystal had succeeded in getting Obama send 30,000 additional troops to the country but at the same time he did not find the July 2011 troop withdrawal date any realistic.
People who have been sympathising with Mc Chrystal are also no longer in US good books. For example, Mr. Hamid Karzai, Afghan president.He has clearly said that replacing Mc Chrystal would not be good for peace and stability in his country. And it goes without saying that this replacement of the top military commander has come at a difficult time for the mission in Afghanistan, with Taliban quarters looking at it as a proof of the failing strategy of coalition troops in the country.
To make a choice between US democratic system requirements and factors that could lead to success at war, was something that has made Obama say that accepting Mc Chrystal’s offer to resign was a tough one to make. Saying, war is bigger than any one man,he decided in the favour of US National Security but doesn’t that have a stake in successful and logical conclusion of the Afghanistan mission?
HE WAS A GENERAL NOT A POLITICIAN.
ReplyDeleteMcChrystal's removal wasn't only because of the Rolling Stone article. He had been a strong critic of Obama's policies in the region and for which he once received a strong reprimand from Obama. Obviously, it was all building up in US President's mind before McChrystal gave this interview and it was all over for him.
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