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[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

The General & The Community Organizer

To think that men who are trained to be careful and deliberate in everything they do, could do something so careless and so unguarded is simply beyond comprehension. I would argue that McChrystal and his aides knew exactly what they were doing.

This is obviously an opinion piece, but it goes along with what I was thinking when I first heard about the brouhaha over the article. It didn't make any sense for the top general and his aides to be bad-mouthing Obama to some random reporter, military guys don't normally talk to the press unless they have to.

I think this guy might be over-exaggerating the effect, but the general gist of the opinion I think is reasonable. Any other opinions on this?

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[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

Maybe. Or maybe Gen.McChrystal just didn't think his [offensive] comments would be published. The journalist who published the article was on The Colbert Report and admitted that, before going to print, but after the article was done, he was contacted and asked to not include some of the Generals comments. But the comments weren't made off the record, so, he reported the article.

The journalist also said something like: "I didn't think his comments made him fireable" give or take

The video should be up on Colbert's website.

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

Yes, I saw that. I wouldn't expect a journalist to know the repercussions of the article.

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

Why not?

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

Because he probably was never in the military.