So . . . . no one on earth apart from Stan McChrystal could do the job?

[Stinky The Clown]

Really?

[aSpeckofDust]

1. Reference? n/t

[Stinky The Clown]

3. Link:

http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2011/apr/12/mcchrystal-gets-new-gig-obama-admin-will-continue-/

McChrystal gets new gig in Obama admin, will continue to teach at Yale

Yale professor and retired four-star general Stanley McChrystal is officially working with the Obama administration once again.

The New York Times reported Sunday that McChrystal will lead an advisory board called Joining Forces. The public service program will focus on providing support for military families, according to the article, striving "to encourage companies, schools, philanthropic and religious groups and local communities to recognize the unusual stress that is endured by families of active duty personnel, reservists and veterans, and to strive to meet their needs."

In an e-mail to the News today, McChrystal wrote: "The key here is my desire to contribute in any way I can to helping America take care of Servicemembers and their families. One measure of what kind of society we truly are is how we take care of those who serve us all — so to me that responsibility is sacred."

McChrystal formally retired late in July from his position as commander of American forces in Afghanistan after the Rolling Stone published a profile of him in which members of his staff made disparaging remarks about U.S. government leaders. In August, he began teaching a weekly 20-person seminar entitled "Leadership" as a part of Yale's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. McChrystal is currently teaching the course again this semester, and wrote to the News today that he finds his time teaching at Yale to be "deeply rewarding" and still intends to maintain his commitments at Yale in addition to his new role with Joining Forces, returning to teach at Yale next Fall and for at least three more years.







There are many other links to be had if that isn't enough.

[aSpeckofDust]

4. No, that is enough. Thank you.

Just wanted to get my bearings on the conversation.

[EFerrari]

15. Most of this material fails to mention his overseeing the black site at Bagram

or his hiding prisoners from the Red Cross.

What the hell are these WH handlers thinking. Isn't this supposed to be a feel good project?

[polichick]

2. Apparently no one could do it like he can - wonder why.

[Stinky The Clown]

6. I do, too. Could it be . . . .

. . . . pandering to the military hard right?

[Shiver]

5. Is he unqualified?

I know nothing about the man. :shrug:

[Thunderstruck]

8. He was the general that got shitcanned from Afghaniraq for talking shit about the President.

[EFerrari]

9. He was one of the ones that promoted the lie about Pat Tillman's death.

He shouldn't be anywhere near military families.

I can only imagine how Mary Tillman feels right now.

[joeybee12]

13. Someone posted somewhere that Mary Tillman was on the news...

obviously talking about this and obviously against it.

[EFerrari]

17. I can't find anything yet. Will try again later. n/t

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

19. Amazing how people have to keep being re-educated to that.

:shrug: :hi:

[EFerrari]

20. It's a little creepy.

:hi:

[Stinky The Clown]

11. His quals are almost immaterial. Obama fired him for his shitty statements in Rolling Stone

This was less than a year ago.

Obama relieves McChrystal of command
Gen. David Petraeus named to take over troubled Afghan war

NBC News and news services
updated 6/23/2010 7:58:33 PM ET

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama sacked his loose-lipped Afghanistan commander Wednesday, a seismic shift for the U.S. military order in wartime, and chose the familiar, admired — and tightly disciplined — Gen. David Petraeus to replace him. Petraeus, architect of the Iraq war turnaround, was once again to take hands-on leadership of a troubled war effort.

Obama said bluntly that Gen. Stanley McChrystal's scornful remarks about administration officials represent conduct that "undermines the civilian control of the military that is at the core of our democratic system."

He ousted the commander after a face-to-face meeting in the Oval Office and named Petraeus, the Central Command chief, who was McChrystal's direct boss, to step in.

In a statement expressing praise for McChrystal yet certainty he had to go, Obama said he did not make the decision over any disagreement in policy or "out of any sense of personal insult." Flanked by Vice President Joe Biden, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in the Rose Garden, he said: "War is bigger than any one man or woman, whether a private, a general, or a president."

>snip<

More at this link:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37866754/ns/us_news-military/

You can get some background here:

The Runaway General
The Rolling Stone profile of Stanley McChrystal that changed history

By Michael Hastings
June 22, 2010 10:00 AM ET

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-runaway-general-20100622

[AngryOldDem]

14. Here's a good place to start

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-runaway-general-20100622

[AngryOldDem]

7. That was my first thought.

My second was, gee -- what a surprise. Not.

You knew he would be back -- somehow, someway.

[EFerrari]

10. So, why would anyone rehabilitate Gen. McTorture?

[spanone]

12. he should have been courtmartialed for insubordination

[Tatiana]

16. Weak, Once again, there is no line in the sand for this President.

Even blatant insubordination and disrespect is A-OK. I'm sure they reached a "compromise" which allowed McChrystal to return to an advisory position.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

18. He'll probably get the Medal of Freedom soon too.....

:puke:

[Stinky The Clown]

21. When Truman fired American Ceasar - Douglas MacArthur - he stayed fired.

MacArthur was highly revered. Yet Truman stood on principles.

[Bluebear]

22. kick

[eridani]

23. Better that than him running for president as a Republican

If I were Obama, that's what I'd be thinking.

[Bluebear]

24. ah another chess move~!

:bounce: