The Wound McChrystal Opened By E.J. Dionne, Jr. —
Gen. Stanley McChrystal put President Barack Obama in an impossible position. That is why McChrystal had to go.

General Discharge By Robert Scheer —
Rolling Stone’s definitive piece on the “Runaway General” establishes the man in charge of the Afghanistan misadventure as an egotistical flake whose half-baked Afghan war-fighting strategy should never have been endorsed.

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