General McChrystal has been recalled to Washington for a carpeting by the President of the United Sates following a Rolling Stone interview. At that meeting he offered the President his resignation.
The worst thing said about President Obama was by an aide to General McChrystal. Mr Obama appeared "uncomfortable and intimidated" by the military and "didn't seem very engaged" when he first met General McChrystal.
Ouch. Stop hitting me with that cooked spaghetti.
It wasn’t so long ago that the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, wrote the epitaph for her candidature by using Congressional hearings to call General David Petraeus a liar. He didn’t complain.
It seems the price of military service is honourable behaviour. The privilege of political service is freedom to behave appallingly.
... and, a day after this post, just to prove its thesis, General Petraeus again serves those who publicly failed to support and ridiculed him for the sake of their political skins.
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