When Stanley Met Barry, Part One

When Stanley Met Barry, Part One

We’ll never know exactly what went down when President Barack Hussein Obama met with General Stanley Allen McChrystal on Wednesday in the White House. All we do know is that the president was “furious” over the general’s comments in the article to be published this week in Rolling Stone, “The Runaway General.”

We do know that it wasn’t a beer summit comparable to the one the president hosted last year to heal the damage he caused in the Crowley-Gates-Cambridge brouhaha. This-sit down ended up with the abstemious general submitting his resignation which is code for being threatened with a sacking unless he faded away quietly.

I have to concede that Obama was between that proverbial rock and hard place over the situation in which McChrystal bad mouthed the president and members of the administration. He was sort of damned if he did fire him and damned if he didn’t.

If he didn’t fire him, aka accept his resignation, . . .
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