asimplechord

I have very mixed feelings about McChrystal, even without taking the most recent kerfluffle into account, and he said some REALLY dumb things. The thing that bothers me, though, is the idea that a) his most provocative (or his aides' most provocative, since many of the quotes used in the article weren't even *his*, they were his staffers' - which then begs the question: what kind of command atmosphere did he establish?) comments were used to generate the most controversy, or that b) as this Army Times (http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/07/army_rolling_stone_mchrystal_071210w/) article suggests, what they had verbally agreed would be off-the-record Hastings used on the record. Of course, the source is the Army Times, which obvs would want to spin this in a way that's positive for the Army/McC and cast blame elsewhere.