McChrystal On 60 Minutes: Afghanistan "A Little Worse" Than Gen. Stanley M. McChrystal Expected (VIDEO)

Things in Afghanistan are "probably a little worse" than Gen. Stanley M. McChrystal expected.

60 Minutes aired its interview Sunday night with Gen. McChrystal, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan.

CBS' David Martin started off by describing Gen. McChrystal as "blunt, hard-charging and fed up with the way the U.S. has been fighting the war over the past 8 years."

Martin traveled to Afghanistan to interview Gen. McChrystal.

CBS:

Asked if things are better or worse than he expected, General McChrystal told Martin, "They are probably a little worse."

"What's worse than you thought?" Martin asked.

"Well, I think that in some areas that the breadth of violence, the geographic spread of violence, places to the north and to the west, are a little more than I would have gathered," McChrystal replied.

Just last week, The Washington Post reported that in a confidential report, McChrsystal warned that the war in Afghanistan would end in failure without additional troops.

Watch 60 Minutes' interview with Gen. Stanley M. McChrystal:

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Comments

[austin4]

This General, has got to go,,, If he isn't gone in less than 30 days, I will be shocked...­.He is Toast.

[beartrack]

Sounds like McChrystal may not be up to the job. Or it could be that our old time traditional Army is not the ones to deal with an insurgency. They all seem to be stuck in the past, and that means stuck in the past before Vietnam. Didn't they learn anything there ? Maybe they spend too much time with the weapons dealers that want to keep selling outdated weapons that are not appropriate for the times we are in now. I don't have a problem with McChrystal talking to the POTUS only once but, he needs to learn that press interviews are not in his job description. Sounds like a major change in Army leadership is needed. Let's get with the times.

[jws2346]

Wake up people. This is another example of stabbing in the dark because THEY DON"T KNOW WHAT TO DO. BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW, not send more Americans into harms way. When are we going to realize NOT EVERY COUNTRY CAN BE REHABILITATED TO DEMOCRACY, to the same way of thinking as ours. WAKE UP before more Americans are scarified for more silly theories

[hdivr]

umm.... you are a student of military history and you say afghanistan is "worse" than you expected???

Didn't you have any clues....s­uch as the fact that no army can beat an insurgency. Soviets tried and couldn't do it. At the peak of the Vietnam war, the US had 500,000 soldiers on the ground....­..and we still couldn't win the war. McChrystal can ask for as many troops as he wants, but in the end, it won't matter.

Same with Afghanista­n.... the more soldiers you put on the ground, the more the population hates us and doesn't want us there.

Bottom line ..... you can't EVER win against an insurgency of the population. They will be around forever. Learn THAT, Gen. McChrystal­..........­...

[beartrack]

Remember the movie Red Dawn ?

[tlgeiger62]

I would have liked to have heard more after McCrystal said it had been some 70 days since he'd spoken directly with the President. One would assume that while McCrystal does not talk directly with the President that info does get exchanged regularly but I found it a little disturbing.

[nirek]

What is the mission in Afghanistan? Is it nation building?
We should get out of there and bring all troops home to protect our borders. They could inspect all the containers that come off ships and keep illegal folks from crossing our borders. Especially the Southern border.

[mizplacement]

Lou? Is that you? Taken to taking to your pleas to HuffPost? Oh, Lou. For your own sake, please go to Fox News where they will love you unconditionally.

[4midable]

Funny, when McChrystal mentions too man Afghan civilian casualties it's not anti-American or unpatriotic.

Where are BLAH -- Beck, Limbaugh And Hannity -- on this one? Or the ever shrill and self righteous Laura Ingram?

They should be all over this. Right?

[Chipher]

http://www.4shared.com/file/135944056/d6d0ad38/Renewable_AfghanistanUpdate.html

[newyorkid]

i'm so happy to see 2ionist vvarmongers in a mess for their own crimes.

[victory2009]

So the Prez talks to his on site commander 1 time in 70 days. Impressive leadership.

[sviolette]

I guess he expected candy and flowers. He ought to be expecting an indictment for war crimes.

[amessenger]

I did watch the 60 minutes interview and it became immediately apparent to me that McChrystal is already playing CYA for losing.
The only win in Afghanistan is tenacity and
streamlining the force effort to 20K or less troops with an emphasis on Al Qaeda Intel,
Special Force Ops and Rapid Deploy Strike Force, as well as calculated Drone strikes where civilian casualties can be avoided.
Redefining our objectives, giving-up on the immediacy of nation building in a meideval country who has no running water, refuse or sewer system in KABUL, their largest city.
When will these guys learn? Numbers and Camo Machine Might cannot win a guerrilla war?
Afghan women are sneaking down from their villages to sleep with American Troops for a loaf of bread!

[Chipher]

Trust me, teenage girls around the world sneak down from their village to sleep with American troops, for a scrap of bread, a bag of Ramen, a can of Spam, a candy bar or a can of soda pop.
You know, be all that you can be, in the Aaarmy..

[DONKEY-OH-TEE]

dead soldiers should have been his first clue

[sviolette]

Dead soldiers number one and live enemy fire his second clue.