Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, commander of NATO’s International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan, works on board a Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft between Battlefield Circulation missions. U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Mark O’Donald/NATOThe Runaway General -- Michael Hastings, Rolling Stone
Stanley McChrystal, Obama's top commander in Afghanistan, has seized control of the war by never taking his eye off the real enemy: The wimps in the White House.
'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 H̫tel Westminster in Paris. He's in France to sell his new war strategy to our NATO allies Рto keep up the fiction, in essence, that we actually have allies. Since McChrystal took over a year ago, the Afghan war has become the exclusive property of the United States. Opposition to the war has already toppled the Dutch government, forced the resignation of Germany's president and sparked both Canada and the Netherlands to announce the withdrawal of their 4,500 troops. McChrystal is in Paris to keep the French, who have lost more than 40 soldiers in Afghanistan, from going all wobbly on him.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
McChrystal will get a red card -- Robert Haddick, Small Wars Journal
General McChrystal Recalled: What’s Important About This? -- Herschel Smith, Captain's Journal
Military Critic on McChrystal: ‘Everybody in Uniform is Replaceable’ -- Noah Shachtman, Foreign Policy
A new, new Taliban front? -- Thomas Ruttig, Foreign Policy
Obama's Vietnam moment: Democrats plan to cut and run in Afghanistan -- Washington Times editorial
SPIEGEL Interview with Kyrgyzstan's Interim President: 'We Are Experiencing a New Kind of Terror' -- Benjamin Bidder, Spiegel Online
China's new economic reality -- Japan Times editorial
Russia's 'new' stance remains anti-West -- David J. Kramer, Washington Post
Obama the isolationist? American uncertainty leads to a world up for grabs -- Tony Blankley, Washington Times
Faith, Doubt, and U.S. Foreign Policy -- Joseph Loconte, The American
U.S. defense: Indispensable or insolvent? -- Stephen M. Walt, Foreign Policy
Creating the next crisis -- Simon Johnson, European Voice
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