Stanton Peele

Addiction expert

Can war survive the combination of daily behind-the-scenes exposures of the human flaws of decision makers, along with intimate portrayals of the travails of war?

Mark Olmsted

Author, 'A Liar Out of Me (Part I): Confessions of a Trashwhisperer'

McChrystal had a choice: Go down with the ship, being remembered forever as the General who "lost" Afghanistan; or be fired, with plenty of time to rewrite the narrative of why he really left.

Zondra Hughes

Creator, The Six Brown Chicks

We aim to earn your trust so that you will let down your guard and tell us what we want to know -- unfiltered, uncensored, raw real talk for the masses.

Robert Naiman

Policy Director, Just Foreign Policy

The administration hopes to dodge questions about the war supplemental urgently being asked by Democratic leaders in the House by claiming that more funds are an exigent, "emergency" need. They're not.

Raymond J. Learsy

Author, 'Oil and Finance: The Epic Corruption Continues'

Much has been written about President Obama's decisive firing of General McChrystal from his command in Afghanistan. Yet it should have come to no one's surprise given an event now near forgotten over a year ago.

Lee Camp

Comedian/author featured on "Countdown," "Good Morning America," & Comedy Central, and creator of "Moment of Clarity" podcast.

Mayhill Fowler

Journalist

Journalism is an act of seduction. Many times I've done the seducing, in writing big stories and small; I've also been the seduced, slammed with the gut-wrenching morning-after upon reading stories written about me.

Paul Jay

CEO and Senior Editor, The Real News Network

There is no magic answer to Afghanistan. A good place to start would be to tell our leaders that projecting American power does not serve us, no matter how much oil, gas or minerals there may be.

Laura Flanders

Host, GRITtv

To heck with the war. It's becoming a story about egos. Or more precisely, as one commentator put it recently, "By focusing on McChrystal's supposed ...

Kathleen Reardon

Professor, USC Marshall School; Author, 'The Secret Handshake' and 'Comebacks At Work'

As Obama works to bring his team together, he'll need to consider how to bridge the divide between his preferred style of leadership and people not so different from General McChrystal.

Josh Mull

Afghanistan Blogging Fellow, Brave New Foundation/The Seminal Citizen Journalist

I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for The Seminal and Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on The Seminal or at Rethink Afghanistan. The view...

Murray Fromson

Fromsonfile.com

I told Walter Cronkite the Vietnam war would never end until we were gone and the two sides, north and south, decided the outcome between themselves. I was proved right then, and I believe it would be true today in Afghanistan.

Winslow T. Wheeler

Director, Straus Military Reform Project, Center for Defense Information

We will see no frowns when the SASC considers the Petraeus nomination. The committee's most recent hearing with the general was attended by politicians supplicating him to offer any response he might care to. It wasn't oversight; it was bad theater.

Bill Shireman

President and CEO of Future 500

I have to admit the impermissible: Barack Obama's name and race were factors that helped attract me to his candidacy. To have a thoughtful, measur...

Rick Ayers

Professor in Teacher Education at the University of San Francisco

One of the strangest things about the coverage of the Stanley McChrystal embarrassment has been the cluelessness of the media.

Rick Horowitz

Milwaukee Public TV Commentator, Writing Coach, Writing & Editing Consultant

Stanley McChrystal, As hot as a pistol, As tough as old leather -- As dumb as a post.