Re: Rolling Stones reporter shocked that his story caused Gen McChrystal to lose his jobs

And that pertains to the story the reporter wrote in what way?   In the first place McChrystal had not mocked Obama and the civilian leadeership.  That was all in the mind of the reporter.  What this does is leave it up to the reporters to have the final say on what they can say and do to the senior military.   Ethics and truth telling have nothing to do with it.   A reporter can just make shit up and bring down the senior military.  The other point is that McChrystal's contempt and his remarks were not McChrystal's contempt and McChrystal's remarks so the whole basis for what Gates said is false to begin with.  

The contempt for this particular CIC by the uniformed leadership would be totally understandable since we already know his contempt for them.   This is like when Bubba was in office and so many top military retired and we already know Bubba's contempt for the military.   Hillary's too.   She tried to make the senior military assigned to the WH come to work in civilian clothes because she did not want to see uniforms around the joint.  And she said this to the top AF general assigned to the WH.   Now we have a current administration where the commanding general in a war has to wait 4 months to go over the policies and even then the president grants him a 20 minute slot and then goes on to Paris to have a "Date Night" with FLOTUS.   That rather tells you how the president regards the military and the men and women fighting for the country.  I would have contempt for him under the circumstances as well.

euwe wrote:

Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, left for Afghanistan yesterday to ease the concerns of field commanders over Obama's sacking of McChrystal and Petraeus' succession.  Earlier, Mullen joined Secretary of Defense Robert Gates at the Pentagon in agreeing that McChrystal had to go after mocking Obama and the civilian leadership in a stunning Rolling Stone magazine article.  "Honestly, when I first read it, I was nearly sick," Mullen said of the magazine piece. "I couldn't believe it."  Gates said that McChrystal's remarks made his position "untenable." But he stressed that McChrystal's contempt for the chain of command was not typical of the top uniformed leadership.  "This is an anomaly, not a systemic problem," Gates said.    Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/06/25/2010-06-25_uh_about_that_date_to_get_out_bam_hedges.html#ixzz0rsK4eFRi  On Jun 25, 4:26 am, euwe <machgie...@gmail.com> wrote:   

I guess the guy never heard of chain of command, and the phrase "officer and a gentleman."  On Jun 24, 12:15 pm, dick thompson <rhomp2...@earthlink.net> wrote:        

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/06/24/2010-06-24_mcchry...       

Just what did the reporter think would happen when a touchy egomaniac like Bambi read what the reporter wrote.   Guess he didn't think at all.