According to Time Magazine, General Stanley McChrystal has offered to tender his resignation to President Obama ahead of what is likely to be an extremely tense meeting at the White House on Thursday.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs warned earlier today that “all options are on the table” with respect to Gen. McChrystal and that he might well be fired following the meeting. President Obama is said to be withholding his final decision until he meets with McChrystal.
Gen. McChrystal was summoned earlier today after Rolling Stone magazine published an article in which he and his staff openly derided President Obama and several other high ranking administration members.
McChrystal’s latest scandal comes at a potentially convenient time for the president, who is facing growing questions about the disastrous McChrystal Plan. While the administration has tried to spin the Afghan War as going quite well, the reality is obviously different. The scandal gives the president the option to fire McChrystal and change course without admitting that the strategy has been a failure.
Interesting photo: Obama's hand spells "basketball". Instead of looking at the invisible ball McChrystal is trying to read the riddle of the face.
McChrystal can no longer be trusted by Obama. McChrystal has to go; he did not work to disengage America from that place but expanded our involvement even more. Generals are subject to the WH no matter what.
Personally, I think Obama should bust him down to 2nd Lt., put him in a FOB on the Pak border, stop/loss his tour and have him IMPLEMENT his "brilliant" plan until he admits that the "forever war" and COIN in today's reality is a really, really bad idea.
Now, where did I last put my pipe…
As nothing's gonna work as ''successful Plan'' in Afghanistan and more Generals are expected to meet the same fate as General Mc, I wonder how many of these Generals are CURIOUSLY nail biting and opting for Martial Law in USA…