Top allied commander [McChrystal] apologizes for magazine profile [Rolling Stone]
• Ernesto Londoño, Washington PostThe top U.S. general in Afghanistan, McChrystal, apologized Tuesday for a magazine article in the Rolling Stone that portrays him and his staff as flippant and dismissive of top Obama administration officials involved in Afghanistan policy.
This one is choice:
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0621/rolling-stone-feature-mcchrystal-mocks-biden-aides-slam-obama/
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This is from the Rolling Stone article:"The entire COIN strategy is a fraud perpetuated on the American people," says Douglas Macgregor, a retired colonel and leading critic of counterinsurgency who attended West Point with McChrystal. "The idea that we are going to spend a trillion dollars to reshape the culture of the Islamic world is utter nonsense."