holbro holbrook, and ambassador eikenberry didn t come directly were mcchrystal, but his senior aides. however, he is responsible for his senior aides. that s kind of a wash. i think what they need to worry about in that article is what the troops are saying. because the reporting of that it wasn t general mcchrystal didn t say the strategy is bad he didn t say that. the rank and file said that to him. and that s why they need petraeus. because the rank and file is out there, going, this isn t work g working, it doesn t feel right. they re outside kandahar, what with are we doing here, we don t think this is working. so that shows you in that article that it is a much more of a problem than general mcchrystal. it s the war effort itself. let me bring barbara starr in, in the pentagon. before we speak, barbara, just want to remind our viewers, we re waiting for the president to walk out of the oval office, down the stairs, into the rose garden, over at the white house, to make
this source says he was told the likely replacement was general david petraeus to send up to congress somebody they were confident in. because what has happened here is not only the downfall of general mcchrystal, but the stalled war effort, already having special liberals in the president s own party saying where are we going here, this isn t about a general, it s about a strategy. so by tapping general petraeus, the president is sending up to congress somebody they know full well from the iraq surge operation, someone they have confidence in, and somebody of whom general mcchrystal was a protege. successfully, at least so far successful, counter insurgency program in iraq. so if he goes into afghanistan now, to many respects, he s the author of this counter insurgency. exactly. so you would continue the policy. what he is asking general petraeus to do, though, is take a step down, which is not an easy thing to ask somebody to do, because he s chief right now, and he could still r