Inside Stanley McChrystal's Yale Seminar

Yale Daily News:

Before his students enter the classroom on a Tuesday morning in November, retired four-star Gen. Stanley McChrystal scrawls the phrase "TRUST AND RELATIONSHIPS" in all caps on the whiteboard.

Two months ago, a group of graduate and undergraduate students were intimidated by the University's new star professor, but now they know better what to expect from his course titled "Leadership."

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Comments

[marknez21]

11:05 PM on 01/18/2011

I have realized why Bush graduated from Yale. The Yale University promote WAR MACHINE, and this the reason they have hired this GENERAL. He has lost the Afghanistan War, he will talk about loses.

[hagagaga]

05:16 PM on 01/18/2011

I wish I could take that class.

[marknez21]

11:07 PM on 01/18/2011

Do you want to get a DIPLOMA from Yale. Title of diploma "HOW WE LOST IN AFGHANISTAN".
ha, ha

[carnitine]

02:28 PM on 01/18/2011

i didn't know Yale had courses in murder

[marknez21]

11:08 PM on 01/18/2011

Is BUSH family school, that support WAR MACHINE

[Last chance]

02:00 PM on 01/18/2011

Yale is skullandbones....gotta protect that o/pium trade.

[marknez21]

11:10 PM on 01/18/2011

They need OPIUM in their dorms

[Last chance]

11:55 PM on 01/18/2011

maybe.....the skullandbones dudes sell it.

[RogerKlotz]

01:44 PM on 01/18/2011

I'd pay a ton of money to take his class..

[Paperless Tiger]

01:41 PM on 01/18/2011

Today's lesson is, "Try to be respectful no matter how difficult it becomes."

[Ohioliberal]

12:36 PM on 01/18/2011

You can now get credit hours for being snarky?

[fgrindle]

12:35 PM on 01/18/2011

Hope he tells everyone how he handled the Tillman shooting. A show of poor leadership and dishonesty on his part. He could also show his disrespect for the President with his speeches press in for 40,000 more troops and failing in his first attempt against the Taliban. What's wrong here?

[MilesToGo]

12:27 PM on 01/18/2011

Hopefully, part of the general's course will include the multiple reasons why, on the whole, American leadership has utterly failed the country since Vietnam, which brought us "The Best & the Brightest," through Enron and "The Smartest Guys in the Room," not to mention the abysmal leadership of the likes of Alan Greenspan, George W. Bush, and numerous others whose arrogance and hubris--all marinated in money--have brought America into a state of genuine decline.

[Forester]

12:02 PM on 01/18/2011

Well we've got John Yoo at Cal, and he's just as big a criminal so there.

[SamEllison]

01:01 PM on 01/18/2011

We got NBC interviewing a war criminal,
Waterboarding is torture - check
the Iraq war an occupation was illegal - check
Extraordinary Rendition is kidnapping - check

[cpapermaster]

12:43 AM on 01/19/2011

Yoo is also responsible for murder and torture, and wears a suit jacket to teach the few students who have to take his classes because they need to graduate. We pay Yoo over $250,000 a year to teach less than 20 students.

[dojone]

11:35 AM on 01/18/2011

So, does he include a discussion on how to avoid undermining the authority of your leader?

[SamEllison]

11:58 AM on 01/18/2011

or how to turn an anti-terror program into
an anti-insurgency program?

[ultrabop]

11:25 AM on 01/18/2011

what's with Yale, anyway? Skull and bones. War memorial right in the center of campus. And now this?

Isn't Yale an institution of higher learning? Or is it a recruiting mecca for the CIA?

[Pandoras Folly]

11:31 AM on 01/18/2011

yes.

[palainausa]

11:42 AM on 01/18/2011

The first president of Yale fought in the Revolutionary War. On our side, no less.

[Stilts9]

11:12 AM on 01/18/2011

McChrystal was a key figure in two illegal and immoral invasions of foreign countries and now he teaches stuff to trust fund kids? lolol

[bobclapp1936]

10:58 AM on 01/18/2011

As a75yr old retired teacher, I would require that all students in the class read George Orwell's "1984" and Howard Zinn's history of the Veitnam War, before McChrystal presented his propaganda.

[ProCynic]

01:04 PM on 01/18/2011

As you engage in it yourself. And you know its propaganda how?

[bobclapp1936]

02:28 PM on 01/18/2011

I saw, heard, and endured U.S. Military propaganda first hand, just like 100% of those who were filled with it from your first day in BOOT. If you have the guts, read ZINN'S "A PEOPLE'S HISTORY of the UNITED STATES." And, you will know exactly how I know.

[easyrider1969]

10:24 AM on 01/18/2011

"Stan" said governments need to be about to operate in secret because the people wouldn't understand the secret sausage making involved. I'm sure he's correct. I, for one, would certainly not understand their secret business deals (war especially included) of private empire building proportions. I wonder if "Stan" has had a secret dinner at "Skull & Bones" where he could really lecture the "Haves" about the "Help".