General McChrystal Has to Go

I don't like seeing anyone losing their job, but General Stanley McChrystal, who has been commanding the American war effort in Afghanistan, needs to go after publicly criticizing his commander-in-chief, President Obama, in a Rolling Stone interview. It is not the duty of a military officer to determine our country's foreign policy. If it ever comes to that, we are all in deep, deep trouble. Presidents Truman and Carter understood this when they sacked MacArthur and Singlaub for their insubordination. And in both cases, the deposed officers were lauded in the press while the presidents were criticized.

Seeing this, and seeing how the Fox News Channel tends to pick up anyone famous who is opposed to Obama, I have two predictions: (1) Within the year after his "retirement", General McChrystal will be hired by Fox as a political or military analyst while constantly being referred to as "General" to give his opinions undisputed credence, and (2) further off in the future, he will run for a statewide senatorial or gubernatorial office as a Republican. There is also an obvious third prediction that is so self-evident that I didn't include it as an "official" prediction: McChrystal will get rich from the upcoming book he will write and from the speaking tours he will be embarking on in the not-so-distant future. The good General who stood up to Obama.

That's the way they do it nowadays.