The War Over McChrystal
In his column today, Eugene Robinson writes that Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the president's hand-picked general to lead the Afghan campaign, has "no business" outlining his preferred strategy in public. McChrystal and the generals who support more troops and a focus on population security in Afghanistan, Robinson writes, "need to shut up and salute."
Liberals had a very different attitude, of course, when generals like Eric Shinseki and John Batiste criticized the Bush-Rumsfeld strategy in Iraq. But I guess they'd say that was another war, and another president, one who had an "R" appended to his name.
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