criticizing the vice president, got at this larger issue of who should be in charge of the military, who should be deciding this policy, and how these sort of even personal relationships can have huge impacts on major policy decisions. because of this tension for months, it was in total disarray. so neither of you had any idea of what the consequences of the peace would be at the time? i figured that it would be talked about on cable news for a couple of hours. i think i brought a suit with me just in case there was any tv interest. but i had no idea that i thought he would not be fired. i didn t realize the depth of the animosity and how much anger there was at the white house at him for pushing the policy to escalate in afghanistan in 2009. that s where the anger came from. the white house did not want to escalate in afghanistan. general mcchrystal they felt boxed him into that position. you wrote your first book about a girlfriend of yours at