We’re heading for the decisive moment with President Obama and Gen. McChrystal. To clarify the circumstances that either McChrystal will face if he stays in command or his successor will face — on the presumption that Obama didn’t decide yesterday morning to chuck a strategy it took him three months to forge — I put [...]

This is something that I’ve been seeing in emails and in other people’s comment threads, and since right now I have nothing more useful to offer I thought I might as well say: No, McChrystal did not say all that stuff to Michael Hastings and Rolling Stone because he was trying to get fired as [...]

You can read Gen. McChrystal’s apology in full here at the Washington Independent. No “clarification” that I expected last night after seeing the AP writeup of McChrystal’s Rolling Stone interview disrespecting the Obama administration. “It was a mistake reflecting poor judgment and should never have happened,” McChrystal emailed reporters instead. “Throughout my career, I have [...]