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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (573895)	6/26/2010 4:17:01 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575793

"Yeah, I'm sure McChrystal simply torpedoed his own career just for the hell of it." Apparently there were many cases of beer involved.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (573895)	6/27/2010 9:22:22 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575793

Yeah, I'm sure McChrystal simply torpedoed his own career just for the hell of it. Well, that's exactly what he's managed to accomplish...if he wanted to do something constructive he sure chose a bizarre method to get there. You somehow seem to discern "higher purpose" through stupidity and unprofessionalism. Why is it that? Never mind...don't tell me... Al

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (573895)	6/27/2010 9:31:45 AM
From: Alighieri	Respond to of 1575793

Once made the top commander in Afghanistan, the general was kept on long past his expiration date. He should have been cashiered after he took his first public shot at Joe Biden during a London speaking appearance last October. That’s when McChrystal said he would not support the vice president’s more limited war strategy, should the president choose it over his own. According to Jonathan Alter in his book “The Promise,” McChrystal’s London remarks also disclosed information from a C.I.A. report that the general “had no authority to declassify.” These weren’t his only offenses. McChrystal had gone on a showboating personal publicity tour that culminated with “60 Minutes” — even as his own histrionic Afghanistan recommendation somehow leaked to Bob Woodward, disrupting Obama’s war deliberations. The president was livid, Alter writes, but McChrystal was spared because of a White House consensus that he was naïve, not “out of control.” nytimes.com