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This story is a huge embarrassment to the Obama administration.\u00a0 He will probably fire McChrystal, but the damage is done.\u00a0 One thing is crystal clear, the top ranking military commander personally chosen by Obama to right our ship in Afghanistan is either a raving lunatic, or he is sick and tired of dealing with raving lunatics:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/news.blogs.cnn.com\/2010\/06\/22\/latest-mcchrystal-developments\/<\/a><\/p>\n

McChrystal cannot survive this and stay in the military.\u00a0 But he can resign and retire.\u00a0 He could pull a Palin and make millions traveling around the country telling everyone exactly what he thinks of Obama.\u00a0 That is the real problem for Obama.\u00a0 If he accepts McChrystal\u2019s resignation, he no longer has any control over what McChrystal will do or say.\u00a0 Active duty officers have to follow orders.\u00a0 Officers who have retired can say what they want.\u00a0 Common sense says that Obama will fire McChrystal, but don\u2019t be surprised if Obama doesn\u2019t do the expected.\u00a0 Obama has a hard time making a difficult decision.\u00a0 So far, with regard to Afghanistan, Obama has been paralyzed with fear over having to make any decision.\u00a0 When confronted with the request to add more troops Obama took several weeks to make a non-decision.\u00a0 McChrystal is one tough guy.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think he will accept a demotion.\u00a0 He will either resign and move on, or go back to his command.\u00a0 He, unlike Obama, is someone who can make a decision.\u00a0 Right now I would bet that there are full scale damage control meetings at the White House.\u00a0 Since just shooting McChrystal is not an option, they are trying to decide how to mitigate the damage.\u00a0 No matter what they decide, Obama has been severely damaged.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The word from the troops is that they are kind of glad to see McChrystal in trouble, because they hate the rules of engagement.\u00a0 McChrystal has to know that and his past record indicates that this was unlikely to have been his idea.\u00a0\u00a0He was definitely a hard core take no prisoners kind of guy, until he took over in Afghanistan.\u00a0 So what changed; his orders or his outlook?\u00a0 All McChrystal has to say to make this absolutely impossible for Obama is that the rules of engagement were Obama\u2019s idea and he was just following a direct order he despised.\u00a0 If he does that, Obama will lose the last smidgen of respect from our troops on the ground.<\/p>\n

On final thought:\u00a0 McChrystal said he voted for Obama.\u00a0 That leaves three choices.\u00a0 One, he is a liar.\u00a0 Two, he voted for Obama because he is that ambitious.\u00a0 Three, he actually is stupid.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Latest and greatest.\u00a0 McChrystal is out, replaced by Petraeus.\u00a0 Probably the best option for Obama under the circumstances.\u00a0\u00a0 But it doesn’t matter.\u00a0 It just make Obama’s mismanagement of the Afghanistan war the hottest topic.\u00a0 Interestingly while most people felt Obama should fire McChrystal, at the same time they all said McChrystal is a very good commander and that this is a symptom of poor management by the White House.\u00a0 Even MSNBC has figured that out.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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