Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Gen. McChrystal's Rolling Stone Interview


Below the jump, you'll read Gen. Stanley McChrystal's candid Rolling Stone interview, which led to a private talk with President Obama earlier today and later, his resignation.

McChrystal, the most senior military commander in Afghanistan participated in a controversial interview with a reporter for Rolling Stone that has stirred much ado across the airwaves and the world with everyone from talk show hosts to military service members to civilians.

Read the article for yourself here

Excerpt

By Michael Hastings
Jun 22, 2010 10:00 AM EDT

This article appears in RS 1108/1109 from July 8-22, 2010, on newsstands Friday, June 25.

'How'd I get screwed into going to this dinner?" demands Gen. Stanley McChrystal. It's a Thursday night in mid-April, and the commander of all U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan is sitting in a four-star suite at the Hôtel Westminster in Paris. He's in France to sell his new war strategy to our NATO allies – to keep up the fiction, in essence, that we actually have allies. Since McChrystal took over a year ago, the.....Full Article

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