Yes, indeed, Ray…. supposing McChrystal wanted off a sinking ship? A kind of false flag in reverse?
Obama Misses the Afghan Exit Ramp
25 June 2010
by: Ray McGovern, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed
https://www.truth-out.org/obama-misses-afghan-exit-ramp60773
(Photo: Pete Souza / White House)
Has it occurred to President Barack Obama that Gen. Stanley McChrystal might actually have wanted to be fired – and, thus, rescued from the current march of folly in Afghanistan, a mess much of his own making?
McChrystal leaves behind a long trail of broken promises and unfulfilled expectations.
For example, there is no real security, at least during the night, in the area of Marja, which McChrystal devoted enormous resources to pacify this spring. Remember his boast that he would then bring to Marja a “government-in-a-box” and, thereby, offer an object lesson regarding what was in store for those pesky Taliban in Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second largest city?
It is now clear that there will be no offensive against Kandahar anytime soon. For the 500,000 people in Kandahar, this is surely a good thing, but it is a huge embarrassment for McChrystal and his former boss, now his successor, the never nonplussed Gen. David Petraeus.
When McChrystal and his undisciplined senior aides let a Rolling Stone reporter know what they really thought of the “intimidated” Obama and most of his national security team, Obama and his advisers took the bait.
They let McChrystal fold his tent in the night and steal silently away from the disaster he leaves behind. White House advisers then brainstormed the idea of replacing McChrystal in Kabul with the straight-arrow Petraeus who is known for running a tight command. Done!
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