The more McChrystal talks about the "new" Afghan strategy

[BanzaiBonnie]

the worse it looks.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121246362

He's talking about five years out... Afghans still won't be ready to take care of their country.

AFAICS, there is no good reason to stay in Afghanistan. There is nothing to gain and we just keep spending our country into more debt.

[MNDemNY]

1. He is a proven liar. Nothing he says should be taken at face value.

If that slug had any honor he would resign.

[EFerrari]

2. If he can hide abused prisoners from the ICRC, who knows what he's hiding from us. n/t

[asjr]

3. Can we be certain he is not Donald Rumsfeld

in disguise?

[Thothmes]

4. No he is President Obama's choice for the assignment.

[spanone]

5. i do not like him, not one little bit.

[gratuitous]

6. It's a curious thing, innit?

During the summer, he said that he couldn't possibly finish the job with one man less than 40,000. This week, he says that 30,000 is plenty. Was he lying to us during the summer? Is he lying to us now? If 30,000 more troops is less than what he absolutely, rock-bottom has to have, shouldn't he resign or something? If he was telling the truth both times (officer and gentleman that he is), what specifically has changed in the last few months that the military can complete its mission with 10,000 fewer troops? And if we waited another three or six months, could we get by with 10,000 less than the current 30,000 allotment? I should think this would be of vital interest to the troops and their families. That is, if they're a priority at all anymore.

[bridgit]

7. McChrystal is in the element he paid for: 'McChrystal's Explanation For Pat Tillman Cover-up

'Is "Preposterous"

Little attention has been paid to Gen. Stanley McChrystal's back-story and his rise to the height of military command of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Before becoming the voice of gravity and a champion of higher troop levels in the eight-year long war, McChrystal's resume was sullied by a controversy in that same theater: the misclassified death of Pat Tillman.

McChrystal was the head of Special Operations command in Afghanistan during Army Ranger (and former football star) Pat Tillman's death. McChrystal was the one who approved paperwork awarding Tillman a Silver Star despite knowing (or at least suspecting) that he had died in fratricide and not, as originally determined, enemy fire.

This was once a big embarrassment for the army and, to a lesser extent, McChrystal himself (though he has copped to making an innocent mistake). But when the general was elevated to top spot in Afghanistan this past spring, relatively few publications revisited the affair.'

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/01/jon-krakauer-mcchrystals_n_341545.html

[lonestarnot]

8. Why waste your ears on that liar?