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Obama Administration Invites Controversial General Back To Public Service

New York Times | Posted 06.10.2011

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Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, who was relieved of command in Afghanistan after a magazine profile quoted his subordinates as disparaging senior civilian...

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Why Firing the General Was an Act of God

Paul Krassner | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Rolling Stone correspondent was stuck in Paris. Embedded there, he hung around with talkative drinkers. They revealed stuff while forgetting it was being told to a reporter.

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Marcus Baram

Michael Hastings, Rolling Stone's McChrystal Profiler, Says Troops Are Happy That General Was Ousted

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Rolling Stone correspondent whose profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal upended America's Afghan war leadership says that soldiers on the ground are ...

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Obama Upheld A Longstanding Constitutional Principle By Dismissing Stanley McChrystal

AP | BARRY SCHWEID | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Celebrated military leaders have capped their careers in the White House, George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant and D...

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Shadow Elite: McChrystal, Through the Looking Glass

Linda Keenan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Linda Keenan

Over the past couple of decades, power brokers within the military increasingly have been subverting established official procedures, bucking authority, and exploiting ambiguity.

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McChrystal: What's Going Down in Washington and Afghanistan?

Michael Brenner | Posted 05.25.2011

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McChrystal is more honest in his assessments than either Obama or Petraeus. The President is accustomed to throw the mantle of success over failure through glib talk and spin.

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Stanley McChrystal Relieved Of Command: Obama Ousts General

AP | JENNIFER LOVEN and ANNE GEARAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama sacked his loose-lipped Afghanistan commander Wednesday, a seismic shift for the military order in wartime, ...

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McChrystal, Obama, and Authority

David Bromwich | Posted 05.25.2011

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To accept McChrystal's resignation is a bad choice and the only possible choice. It amounts to an assertion of command. But to assert command brings responsibilities.

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Stanley McChrystal Bio: Top U.S. General In Afghanistan Spoke Up One Too Many Times

AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Known for his blunt and uncompromising instincts, Gen. Stanley McChrystal spoke his mind once too often. The commander of U.S. mil...

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Stan McChrystal: When a Sideman Wants to Be the Frontman

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011

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Richard (RJ) Eskow

Obama and McChrystal are both singing the wrong tune, and Afghanistan's the wrong venue. The band would be better off packing up their amps and going home.

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What President Obama Should Do With Gen. McChrystal

Steven G. Brant | Posted 05.25.2011

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The lack of respect for civilian authority demonstrated by General McChrystal and his staff -- on the record and over an extended period of time -- is all the justification President Obama needs to fire General McChrystal.

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How US Aid Helps the Taliban

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 05.25.2011

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The movement which campaigned so hard to elect Obama may now have to actively fight against some of Obama's key policies. If not, protesters may soon be chanting the same slogans at Obama as were once chanted against LBJ.

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McChrystal Light: Obama Considering Scaled-Down Afghan War Plan

AP | ANNE GEARAN and MATTHEW LEE | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is considering sending large numbers of additional U.S. forces to Afghanistan next year but fewer than his w...

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Obama Has McChrystal's Troop Request

AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The Afghanistan war reached its once-unthinkable eighth anniversary Wednesday as President Barack Obama, seeking a revamped strateg...

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Obama Delays McChrystal's Washington Trip To Discuss Troop Levels

washingtonpost.com | Karen DeYoung and Greg Jaffe | Posted 05.25.2011

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The White House has told the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan to delay a planned trip here Friday to brief President Obama and his senior ad...

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Obama, McChrystal Meet In Denmark Over Afghan War Strategy

AP | JULIE PACE and LARA JAKES | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — At a pivotal point in the administration's Afghanistan strategy, President Barack Obama and his top Afghan war commander met privat...

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