Obama and his administration have ruined the war effort in the middle east!

[PHILIP SCHNEIDER]

World Peace is no longer possible and Obama is responsible!

White House summons US general to explain himself.

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By ANNE GEARAN and JULIE PACE, AP National Security Writers Anne Gearan And Julie Pace, Ap National Security Writers

WASHINGTON – The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan has been summoned to Washington to explain derogatory comments about President Barack Obama and his colleagues, administration officials said Tuesday.

Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who publicly apologized Tuesday for using "poor judgment" in an interview in Rolling Stone magazine, has been ordered to attend the monthly White House meeting on Afghanistan and Pakistan in person Wednesday rather than over a secure video teleconference,
according to officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they
were not authorized to speak publicly. He'll be expected to explain his
comments to Obama and top Pentagon officials, these officials said.

Obama has the authority to fire McChrystal. His predecessor, Gen. David McKiernan, was sacked
on grounds that the military needed "new thinking and new approaches"
in Afghanistan.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen has told McChrystal of his "deep disappointment" over the article, a spokesman said.

The article in this week's Rolling Stone depicts McChrystal as a lone wolf on the outs with many important
figures in the Obama administration and unable to persuade even some of
his own soldiers that his strategy can win the war.

The interview describes McChrystal, 55, as "disappointed" in his first Oval Office meeting with Obama. The article says that although McChrystal voted for
Obama, the two failed to connect from the start. Obama appointed
McChrystal to lead the Afghan effort in May 2009. Last fall, though,
Obama called McChrystal on the carpet for speaking too bluntly about
his desire for more troops.

"I found that time painful," McChrystal said in the article, on newsstands Friday. "I was selling an unsellable position."

Obama agreed to dispatch an additional 30,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan only
after months of study that many in the military found frustrating. And
the White House's troop commitment was coupled with a pledge to begin bringing them home in July 2011, in what counterinsurgency strategists advising McChrystal regarded as an arbitrary deadline.

In Kabul on Tuesday, McChrystal issued a statement saying: "I have enormous respect and admiration for President Obama and his national security team, and for the civilian leaders and troops fighting this war and I remain committed to ensuring its successful outcome."

"I extend my sincerest apology for this profile," the statement said. "It
was a mistake reflecting poor judgment and should never have happened."

Mullen talked with McChrystal about the article Monday night, Capt. John Kirby, Mullen's spokesman said. In a 10-minute conversation, the chairman "expressed his deep
disappointment in the piece and the comments" in it, Kirby said.

The Rolling Stone profile, titled "The Runaway General," emerged from several weeks of interviews and travel with McChrystal's tight circle of aides this spring.

In the interview, McChrystal he said he felt betrayed by the man the White House chose to be his diplomatic partner, Ambassador Karl Eikenberry. If Eikenberry had the same doubts, McChrystal said he never expressed
them until a leaked internal document threw a wild card into the debate
over whether to add more troops last November. In the document,
Eikenberry said Afghan President Hamid Karzai was not a reliable partner for the counterinsurgency strategy McChrystal was hired to execute.

McChrystal accused the ambassador of giving himself cover.

"Here's one that covers his flank for the history books," McChrystal told the magazine. "Now, if we fail, they can say 'I told you so.'"

Caitlin Hayden, spokeswoman for the U.S. embassy in Kabul, said Eikenberry and McChrystal "are
fully committed to the president's strategy and to working together as
one civilian-military team."

McChrystal has a history of drawing criticism, despite his military achievements.

In June 2006 President George W. Bush congratulated McChrystal for his role in the operation that killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq. As head of the special operations command, McChrystal's forces included the Army's clandestine counterterrorism unit, Delta Force.

History has proven over and over again that when politicians run the war, the effort fails!

Obama has failed . . . . unless . . . . this result (recalibration of the Taliban) was his goal.

[Gordon Ray Kissinger]

I hope McChrystal eventually takes the higher road of truth and honor, and puts America and the military service personnel over his own career. I would have much more respect for him if he did. MAO'bama and the left are already initiating his ultimate demise and disgraceful end.