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McChrystal Ousted in Wake of Damaging Magazine Story
By not in system - AOL News(June 23) -- Gen. Stanley McChrystal, under fire for comments made in a Rolling Stone profile, has resigned as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan. Gen. David Petraeus, presently head of the U.S. Central Command, which oversees the operation in Afghanistan, has been nominated to take over the position but must first face Senate confirmation hearings. The changes were announced by the president Wednesday afternoon and followed a morning meeting at the White House between McChrystal and Obama to discuss the general's incendiary remarks. ...
Obama Replaces McChrystal With Petraeus: Instant Reactions
By Carl Franzen - Politics DailyPresident Barack Obama announced today that he accepted Gen. Stanley McChrystal's resignation as commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan and is replacing him with Gen. David Petraeus. McChrystal's ouster was precipitated by a now-infamous Rolling Stone article published online Tuesday which depicted "The Runaway General" and his staff making critical comments of Obama administration officials. McChrystal had been in charge in Afghanistan for the past year, under which time the situation on the ground had continued to deteriorate into violence and civil instability, despite a ...
Obama's Announcement on McChrystal [LIVE VIDEO]
By Carl Franzen - Politics DailyAfter a brief, half-hour-long meeting early this morning, President Barack Obama is scheduled to make his announcement regarding the fate of Gen. Stanley McChrystal at 1:30 p.m. ET today, according to the White House. The president's statements to the press will be streamed live via the White House website. Watch the video here: JOIN THE LIVE CHAT VISIT WHITEHOUSE.GOV ...
McChrystal Meeting with Obama Over After Half Hour
By Carl Franzen - Politics DailyGeneral McChrystal's much-hyped meeting with President Obama to determine the fate of his job as commander of the war in Afghanistan ended after 30 minutes without an announcement from either camp, according to Politico. The private meeting between the general and the President, which was scheduled to take place for half an hour today in the Oval Office, reportedly began at 9:51 and concluded at 10:21, at which point McChrystal entered a black SUV and left the White House, Politico reports. No word has yet been given from either McChrystal or the White House as to the status of the ...
Who Would Replace McChrystal?
By not in system - AOL News(June 22) -- Two Marine generals, John Allen and Jim Mattis, are on the list of potential replacements for Gen. Stanley McChrystal as he flies to Washington for a grim meeting Wednesday with President Obama. McChrystal, the hard-charging top combat commander in Afghanistan, was abruptly recalled to Washington Tuesday, hours after White House officials read the critical comments and crude remarks the four-star general and his staff had made to a magazine journalist about administration officials, including Vice President Joe Biden. ...
McChrystal Offered to Resign? General Says 'You Know Better Than That'
By Carl Franzen - Politics DailyUpon this arrival at the Pentagon today -- ahead of an all-important, career-deciding meeting with President Obama -- General Stanley McChrystal promptly squashed reports that he had offered his resignation as commander of U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan. "Come on, you know better than that," he was quoted by NBC News, via MSNBC. "No!" McChrystal is scheduled to meet with the President later today to decide his future under the Obama Administration following the explosive Rolling Stone profile of the general posted online yesterday, in which he and aids trash talk White House ...
McChrystal, Afghanistan, and the Era of Foreign Policy Austerity
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyFor all the excessively glib parallels to Harry Truman's dramatic sacking of Douglas MacArthur, Stanley McChrystal's intemperate comments recorded by Rolling Stone do not rise to the level of a extra-constitutional challenge to civilian control of the military. The imperious, impetuous, and imperial MacArthur wanted to command American foreign policy: The five-star general wrote a letter to the Republican leader of the House, urging unleashing Chiang Kai-shek on Formosa to attack mainland China. McChrystal, in contrast, as the smoking-gun Rolling Stone article demonstrates with bull's-eye ...
General Stanley McChrystal Tenders Resignation
By David Knowles - Politics DailyCiting an unnamed source, Time magazine's Joe Klein reported on CNN that Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, has officially offered his resignation to President Barack Obama. CBS News later confirmed that McChrystal offered Obama a letter of resignation, and ABC's Jake Tapper reports that Obama will meet with McChrystal on Wednesday before deciding the general's fate. McChrystal finds himself in hot water after criticizing Obama and several members of his administration in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine over their handling of the Afghan war ...
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