Then senator Obama, one of the most outspoken politicians against the surge strategy, questions his future Afghanistan surge commander on the supposed infeasibility of the Iraqi surge. Sometimes fate can be a beautiful thing.





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As for those who blame Rolling Stone, I don't quite follow your logic. A free press will report on jerkish things that people say. Just because McChrystal and his staff had become used to reporters who wrote puff pieces does not mean they should have relaxed their discipline and said whatever they liked to the press. It's easy to imagine how it happened, but that does not make it okay.
I think that some long for the days when the press was more even tempered about war coverage. This Hastings is no Ernie Pyle.

McChrystal seriously erred in judgment in this situation, but it takes a special kind of jerk to weasel himself into the good graces of a man focused completely on the immense task of winning our war, capture a few off hand comments, and destroy him.