A Rolling Stone profile of Gen Stanely McChrystal due out of Friday “was a mistake reflecting poor judgment and it should have never happened,” the commander of US forces in Afghanistan now says.
It was a mistake to say what he and his staff said, or it was a mistake to make these remarks in the presence of a journalist?
The incident reveals the ambivalence Americans feel when it comes to the institutional power at the center of American democracy. Whatever keeps the wheels of Washington working smoothly, it isn’t candor.
Coming as I do from a country that has a real and ancient monarchy (for which I have little respect), during twenty-some years in the United States I’ve always viewed this country’s republican credentials with a certain measure of skepticism.
(Thanks Mara)
McChrystal is gone. How much do you want to bet that we see a McChrystal - Sarah Palin ticket for the Republican party to contend for the next US presidential/vice-presidential election?
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