General Stanley McChrystal Address - Press Coverage

27 June 2010 - - New York Times - The 36 Hours That Shook Washington Once made the top commander in Afghanistan, the general was kept on long past his expiration date. He should have been cashiered after he took his first public shot at Joe Biden during a London speaking appearance last October. That’s when McChrystal said he would not support the vice president’s more limited war strategy, should the president choose it over his own. According to Jonathan Alter in his book “The Promise,” McChrystal’s London remarks also disclosed information from a C.I.A. report that the ge
24 Jun 2010 - - Boston Globe - After McChrystal THERE IS something classic in the downfall of General Stanley McChrystal, the US top commander in Afghanistan who is a brilliant strategist, tactician, and disciplinarian who, in the end, could not discipline himself. Unfortunately his gaffe with Rolling Stone was not his first indiscretion. His speech before the International Institute for Strategic Studies last fall was borderline interference with his bosses’ decision making. The leak of his proposed strategy memo before President Obama had finished his
24 Jun 2010 - - Daily Telegraph - Afghanistan: The battle behind the frontline Gen McChrystal, of course, was no stranger to Washington's bitter in-fighting. Last autumn, he very nearly got himself fired after he was accused of speaking out of turn when, in a speech to a London think tank, he publicly called for more troops to be sent to Afghanistan at the very moment that Mr Obama was undertaking a wide-ranging review of strategy.
24 Jun 2010 - - The News International - Like a rolling stone Indeed, Fair is right. It is not the first occasion. At the International Institute for Strategic Studies in October last year, McChrystal delivered a controversial speech in which he openly campaigned for Obama to adopt his own prescriptions for the Afghan war. Moreover, he was critical of the counter-terrorism approach to the American campaign against al-Qaeda and its allies in Afghanistan and Fata favoured by Biden. At the time, many expected President Obama to come down hard on McChrystal. While the gen
23 Jun 2010 - - Guardian - Stanley McChrystal only has himself to blame This extraordinarily public policy tussle came to a head in London in October when McChrystal addressed the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Rejecting the "containment" policy option favoured by the vice-president, Joe Biden, he said such an approach would produce "Chaos-istan" and he would not support it. The US needed to escalate militarily, adopt his counterinsurgency strategy, and hurry up about it.
23 Jun 2010 - - Wall St Journal - Why McChrystal Has to Go After Gen. McChrystal's understandable but somewhat impolitic address at the International Institute for Strategic Studies last fall, the message from Washington was clear: Stay mum. In this business one deserves one mistake—and this second mistake is far, far worse than the first.
23 Jun 2010 - - New York Times - McChrystal Tests Obama’s Priorities In the end, that may have been General McChrystal’s mistake as well. In a speech in London last fall, while the president was deciding between General McChrystal’s call for a long counterinsurgency effort and Mr. Biden’s preference for dealing with the war from afar with drone strikes, the general suggested that trying to fight the war from afar was a “plan called Chaosistan.”
23 Jun 2010 - - Foreign Policy - Democrats far more critical of McChrystal than Republicans Webb also pointed to the last time McChrystal seemingly got ahead of the president in talking about the war strategy, when he spoke to the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the media in London late last year and then was summoned for a private scolding from Obama. "Last October, I raised the question about him being in London making a speech and doing 60 minutes while there was a careful evaluation of the policy going on," Webb remembered. "I thought that was inappropriate."

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