General McChrystal publicity really rips the administration in Rolling Stones

General Stanley McChrystal is being called on the White House carpet after a magazine article released this week quoted the general criticizing the Obama administration and its Afghanistan strategy with his staff. McChrystal and Obama meet regularly to discuss Afghanistan via videoconference. But after the Rolling Stone McChrystal profile broke, detailing the general's disdain for his boss, Obama decided he wanted to see him this time in person. This isn’t the very first time the general has talked bad about administration in public.

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Obama contempt from McChrystal

Within the article, General McChrystal and his staff reveal their contempt that they have with several officials carrying out the administration's Afghanistan war policy. It was reported by Fox News the article in this week's Rolling Stone quotes McChrystal making disparaging remarks about President Obama, mocking Vice President Joe Biden, feeling "betrayed" by U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry, and recalling how Obama looked "uncomfortable and intimidated" by a roomful of military officers. Somebody who's an aide to McChrystal also calls National Security Adviser Jim Jones "a clown" who remains "stuck in 1985."

Fallout of McChrystal Rolling Stone

General McChrystal will attend a White House meeting with Biden and numerous of the other advisers whom McChrystal or his staff mocked within the article. The general has fired Duncan Boothby, the press aide who booked the McChrystal interview with Rolling Stone. The Washington Post reports the timing of the Rolling Stone article by freelance journalist Michael Hastings could hardly be worse. With little but bad news coming out of McChrystal's Afghanistan war and increasing casualties, U.S. lawmakers and senior officials from allied countries are increasingly skeptical about the U.S. Afghanistan strategy. In the mean time, it was reported by the Associated Press that Afghan President Hamid Karzai strongly backs McChrystal in Afghanistan and hopes Obama doesn't determine to replace him.

General McChrystal does it again

This isn’t the first time this has happened. Last year following the general's evaluations for the Afghanistan war were made public, he gave a speech in London openly criticizing administration officials, vice president Joe Biden in particular, who disagreed with him. On that occasion McChrystal was called on the carpet of Air Force One in Copenhagen, where the president had traveled to speak about Chicago's bid to host the Olympics. The New York Times reports that General McChrystal has apologized for his remarks, saying the article was “a mistake reflecting poor judgment and should never have happened.”

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Fox News

whitehouse.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/06/22/obama-summons-his-top-general-in-afghanistan-back-to-white-house-after-disparaging-remarks/

The Washington Post

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/22/AR2010062200813_2.html?sid=ST2010062200900

New York Times

nytimes.com/2010/06/23/world/asia/23mcchrystal.html?hp