America's Top Commander Exposes Obama Administration Incompetence; Walks It Back

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Let's just note for the record that Toby Harnden's entire business strategy involves attracting links from Matt Drudge's site, which makes Harnden the most echoey subdivision of the rightwing echo chamber. (Exemplum gratum: were you aware that 2008 was the year of the Matt Drudge election? Neither was I. But boy did it get traffic.) To cite him as a source for a rightwing argument is roughly akin to citing Michael Moore for a leftwing argument; the source leaves much to be desired.

He makes about fourteen separate arguments for why Obama sacking McCrhystal is the Worst Decision of All Time, apparently following the throw-everything-at-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks school of rhetoric. Certainly the most amusing one is that by losing McChrystal we're losing our super-special access to Hamid Karzai (who kept McChrystal from beginning the Marja offensive for hours while he conducted a Presidential nap).

There's plenty to get frustrated with the current President, and plenty of legitimate attacks on his actions that you can make. Harnden's shotgun approach, however, only serves to inflame those already convinced of his conclusions. "Preaching to the choir" is the most apt metaphor for this sort of exercise.