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McChrystal Will Retire
With Four-Star Pension

Jun 29, 2010 7:24 PM CDT

McChrystal Will Retire With Four-Star Pension

White House promises, though he doesn't technically qualify

(Newser) - Stanley McChrystal will retire with his fourth star—and the bigger pension it brings. The White House will do "whatever is necessary" to make that happen, says press chief Robert Gibbs. It's an issue because McChrystal got the fourth star about a year ago and hasn't served with it...

McChrystal
Will Retire

Jun 28, 2010 6:00 PM CDT

McChrystal Will Retire

Disgraced general's formal rank at issue

(Newser) - Gen. Stanley McChrystal will retire from the Army after 34 years in uniform and one devastating Rolling Stone profile . " McChrystal informed the Army today that he intends to retire, " said a rep, but "we don’t have a date yet or anything like that." Whether he...

McChrystal's Potty Mouth May Have Cost Him His Job

ANALYsis

Jun 28, 2010 4:40 PM CDT

McChrystal's Potty Mouth May Have Cost Him His Job

Rolling Stone piece's impact helped by vulgar language

(Newser) - What does a journalist have to do to effect a major change in US foreign policy? In the case of Michael Hastings' Rolling Stone profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the answer may be to use lots and lots of curse words. The piece uses "f---" 18 times, from the...

'Permanent War'
Threatens US
Democracy

OPINION: AFGHANISTAN

Jun 28, 2010 3:37 AM CDT

'Permanent War' Threatens US Democracy

Mounting Disrespect Should Trigger Alarms

(Newser) - An age-old truth is rearing its ugly head in the US Afghanistan command: long wars and democracy don't mix, Andrew Bacevich writes in the Washington Post . Finding itself in a state of endless war—that folks back home can and do ignore—the military has adopted a "culture of...

Hastings: I Didn't Think
McChrystal Fallout Was Possible

TALK SHOW ROUNDUP

Jun 27, 2010 1:03 PM CDT

Hastings: I Didn't Think McChrystal Fallout Was Possible

McCain thinks Obama did right in canning McChrystal, and more

(Newser) - Wunderscribe Michael Hastings chewed over the fallout from his Rolling Stone profile today, Politico reports, telling CNN that he "didn't even think it was possible." He also dismissed rumblings from the McChrystal camp that he used off-the-record comments, saying, “Some of the most talked about parts of...

McChrystal Allies Say Reporter Broke Ground Rules

Jun 26, 2010 10:56 AM CDT

McChrystal Allies Say Reporter Broke Ground Rules

Military, Rolling Stone offer differing accounts

(Newser) - Stanley McChrystal's allies are pushing back against the notion that he and and his staff made their disparaging remarks on the record and had no qualms about seeing them published. They tell the Washington Post that Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings broke agreed-upon ground rules by quoting them in off-the-record...

Troops Glad
McChrystal's Gone:
Rolling Stone Writer

Jun 25, 2010 4:20 PM CDT

Troops Glad McChrystal's Gone: Rolling Stone Writer

Reporter 'very surprised' by 'unfireable' general's ouster

(Newser) - The journalist whose Rolling Stone exposé got Stanley McChrystal fired says troops in Afghanistan are thanking him. "Over here, soldiers were happy that he got fired," Michael Hastings, who's embedded in Afghanistan, tells the Huffington Post . "I've had a number of people come up to me, I...

Taliban: McChrystal
Firing a Victory

Interview

Jun 25, 2010 12:42 PM CDT

Taliban: McChrystal Firing a Victory

Terrorist group say sacking gives it more time

(Newser) - The Afghan Taliban likes to say, “Americans may own the watches. But we’ve got the time.” That’s why the terror group is thrilled to see Stanley McChrystal exit, commander Sirajuddin Haqqani tells the Daily Beast —it gives the Taliban even more time. American generals talk...

McChrystal Burned by Our 'Culture of Exposure'

david brooks

Jun 25, 2010 8:38 AM CDT

McChrystal Burned by Our 'Culture of Exposure'

Reporter plays by the new rules, and the general didn't know them

(Newser) - Used to be that public figures—politicians and military types, say—could bitch about their bosses in front of reporters, and that stuff would never make it into the story, writes David Brooks. Now it is the story. Stanley McChrystal somehow missed this development, and his "run-of-the-mill complaining" cost...

McChrystal Was Doomed From 1st Words of 'Runaway'

Inside Obama's Warroom

Jun 24, 2010 10:52 AM CDT

McChrystal Was Doomed From 1st Words of 'Runaway'

Obama thought keeping general would undermine civilian command

(Newser) - One paragraph into “the Runaway General,” Barack Obama was pretty sure he’d fire Stanley McChrystal. An hour after the president got the Rolling Stone article, aides were summoned to discuss the possibility. “There was a basic meeting of the minds,” Rahm Emanuel tells the New ...

Media Can Kiss
Military Access Goodbye

McChrystal Fallout

Jun 24, 2010 8:23 AM CDT

Media Can Kiss Military Access Goodbye

Generals will be weary of reporters

(Newser) - Journalists are going to have a much tougher job covering the war in Afghanistan in the wake of Stanley McChrystal's Rolling Stone debacle, senior National Journal correspondent James Kitfield predicts today. "There will be no embeds in Afghanistan in higher headquarters for quite a while," he tells NPR...

Lawmakers, Afghan Leaders Welcome Petraeus

Jun 24, 2010 5:52 AM CDT

Lawmakers, Afghan Leaders Welcome Petraeus

McChrystal replacement likely to have 'fastest confirmation in history'

(Newser) - President Obama's choice of David Petraeus to replace Stanley McChrystal has met near-universal praise in Washington and Kabul. Democrats and Republicans alike say the general is guaranteed a swift Senate confirmation to take charge of the Afghanistan war, Politico reports. The general's confirmation "may be the fastest in the...

Smart Move, Mr. President

opinion roundup

Jun 23, 2010 3:04 PM CDT

Smart Move, Mr. President

Replacing McChrystal with Petraeus wins over critics

(Newser) - President Obama's decision to replace McChrystal with Petraeus is playing well among pundits on the left and right:

Victor Davis Hanson, National Review : "Obama had no choice but to do what he did, and the wise Petraeus move was obviously a mitigating factor. Obama’s speech, despite the customarily

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McChrystal Journalist Is
No Hack

Jun 23, 2010 2:00 PM CDT

McChrystal Journalist Is No Hack

Michael Hastings' writing includes a riveting Iraq memoir

(Newser) - Why did Stanley McChrystal even agree to meet with a Rolling Stone writer? Maybe because that writer was Michael Hastings, a highly respected journalist who’s written for a host of publications. Business Insider highlights some of his more notable stories:

I Lost My Love in Baghdad: In this incredible

...

McChrystal Out;
Petraeus Will
Replace Him

Jun 23, 2010 1:07 PM CDT

McChrystal Out; Petraeus Will Replace Him

Obama accepts resignation with 'regret'

(Newser) - President Obama has accepted Stanley McChrystal's resignation, replacing him with David Petraeus, Obama announced today in a brief statement outside the White House. Obama said he had "considerable regret" about the decision, reports the AP , and stressed that he wasn't sacking McChrystal "out of any sense of personal...

McChrystal Leaves
White House
Before Strategy
Meeting

Jun 23, 2010 11:32 AM CDT

McChrystal Leaves White House Before Strategy Meeting

No word on his fate after 30-minute meeting with Obama

(Newser) - Stanley McChrystal left the White House after a 30-minute meeting with President Obama today—and didn’t return for the big strategy session that followed. There’s still no word on the general’s fate, or on how the meeting went— MSNBC says there’s “an almost complete lockdown...

Stewart Takes on McChrystal

CLOWNS STUCK IN '85

Jun 23, 2010 8:06 AM CDT

Stewart Takes on McChrystal

'You’re with I’ll Never Print This magazine, right?'

(Newser) - When Stanley McChrystal ill-advisedly referred to National Security Adviser Jim Jones as a “clown who's stuck in 1985,” at least some good came of it: It inspired Jon Stewart ’s impression, last night, of a clown stuck in 1985. After tackling the McChrystal mess, Stewart again hit...

McChrystal's
Real Crime:
Trying Too Hard
in Afghanistan

OPINION

Jun 23, 2010 7:46 AM CDT

McChrystal's Real Crime: Trying Too Hard in Afghanistan

General wants to win the war at any cost

(Newser) - Yes, Gen. Stanley McChrystal should lose his job, but not because he bruised Barack Obama’s ego. “The press is turning a story about policy into a story about penises,” writes Peter Beinart on the Daily Beast . Beneath the “fairly mild” cracks McChrystal makes in that Rolling ...

Top Choices for
McChrystal's Job

Jun 23, 2010 7:25 AM CDT

Top Choices for McChrystal's Job

Mattis, Rodriguez, Allen head candidate pack

(Newser) - With Gen. Stanley McChrystal looking like a goner, attention has turned to the Afghanistan commander's possible replacements. Marine Gen. James Mattis and Marine Lt. Gen. John Allen appear to be frontrunners, though Thomas Ricks notes in Foreign Policy that Mattis, ironically, "has a reputation... for speaking a little too...

McChrystal to Resign Today

says pentagon source

Jun 23, 2010 6:32 AM CDT

McChrystal to Resign Today

Source has 'ongoing contacts' with the general

(Newser) - No one yet knows what Obama will do in the wake of Stanley McChrystal's Rolling Stone flap , but CNN thinks it knows what the general will do. An unnamed Pentagon source has told CNN that McChrystal will "likely" resign today after an Oval Office meeting with the president. Not...