thing. and your other guest is right. if taking mcchrystal is going to undermine the president s policy, he s just executing the president s policy which he went way out of his base realm, if you will, took a lot of local hits from his own side for doing the right thing in afghanistan. if they replace him with somebody in theater, then they won t and there s no delay or they have a seemless transition, that s one thing. if they have a delay of a couple of months, we re at a critical turning point. it will obviously jeopardize the entire mission and in turn this shouldn t matter but it always seems to, this white house will be really painful politically for this white house. we re going to take a quick break. when we come back, the president was fascinating. he gave a brief statement saying that i want to meet with mcchrystal and then he wanted to explain why this mattered. after the break, you ll hear the
over there. and here s one more. we know in the ramp up, the president gave him what he wanted. one of those was the vice president, questioning whether it s a here s something that general mcchrystal said about vice president biden. how he should respond, i never know what is going to pop out until i m out there. are are you asking about what vice president with a laugh, who is na? a top aide? did you say bite me, this is a general four-star in the united states military who is brass and brazen. but this is still the president and vice president of the united states. that s right. how do you give $33 billion to the a general that has such con test for the administration and policy. if he doesn t give him his
a closer look at the fall out of general mcchrystal. troops in the field can get the news instantaneously. sect gates says mcchrystal has a lot to explain. tell us what you think. they are reaching out as we often do. asking troops in the field what you do you think of this controversy. mcchrystal s job at risk. anyone who gets the computer can read this as well. the stars and stripes. mcchrystal forces obama into a no-win situation. that is the coverage in the military press, what the troops see. let s take a look at afghan policy right here. i ll start off on the top about
policy is determined entirely on how to make sure that we have a strategy that justifies the enormous courage and sacrifice that those men and women are making over there. that s the president saying that the strategy is more important than the person, he s the best guy, or was he saying, it s not the general. it s the troops that matter? i think that he s probably still make up his mind about what to do. he s trying to have a frank conversation with general mcchrystal and decide whether the strategy, whether success in afghanistan, how ever that can be defined, will occur moving forward with general mcchrystal. i would like to say, though, that one of the things that this article does do is distract some major problems with the strategy
same for the men and women that work for you. you don t say, i don t like the cut of his jib. that said, the general has by and large the policy that is supported by the president. there are personality conflicts going on. people know that. but the general should be able to rise well above that. general eisenhower did it with general montgomery. so the issue is not the policy difference. this general has been over there fighting both in iraq and this war. it gets pretty tough at times and there is venting that shouldn t have been done. it calls for dismissal, without a question, but this president, this commander in chief who supported this policy that this general wanted, has to make his decision. do we need him to be successful for the mission here? so if he keeps him, i think without a question the general is going to keep his mouth shut but that s the decision that he has to make. is there still a chance that this strategy of the president can work for our security? and if he rep