What surprises me most about the now-famous Rolling Stone interview with General McChrystal is not that he was so reckless as to make flippant, unflattering remarks about the president and his sorry team. No, I am far more surprised to learn that he actually voted for Obama. How could a man with McChrystal's vast, impressive background in military culture think that someone like Obama, given what we knew about his positions, his past associations, his plans for the military, etc., would be a better leader of the armed forces than John McCain? So many of us, with absolutely zero military experience knew long before the election what McChrystal inexplicably did not. Unfortunately for McChrystal (and for the rest of us), he saw the light only when it was too late. But at least we civvies are free to air our views about Obama without fear of a White House summons. Many Americans didn't require four stars to know that Obama would be a total disaster for the nation.
That said, McChrystal's Rolling Stone criticisms, while appallingly inappropriate given his position and his duty to the commander in chief, are mostly valid in their substance. Again, the real shocker, at least to me, is that it took him so long to figure this out.
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Writing for the Washington Examiner, Byron York offers his thoughts on McChrystal.
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