Holy Crap! We're going to have a fun couple of days in regards to this. I'm predicting that Gen. McChrystal is going to have a rough couple of days, weeks and be a MAJOR story.
Yes I'm linking to Fox, but Rolling Stone's magazine is going to have a major article on Gen. McChrystal where he stated that Eikenberry "betrayed" him.
McChrystal's Comments via Fox
Here's McChrystal on some of these comments. If even half are true, they're going to provide some MAJOR problems for General McChrystal.
If Eikenberry had the same doubts, McChrystal said he never expressed them until a leaked internal document threw a wild card into the debate over whether to add more troops last November. In the document, Eikenberry said Afghan President Hamid Karzai was not a reliable partner for the counterinsurgency strategy McChrystal was hired to execute.
McChrystal said he felt "betrayed" and accused the ambassador of giving himself cover.
"Here's one that covers his flank for the history books," McChrystal told the magazine. "Now, if we fail, they can say 'I told you so."'
There was no immediate response from Eikenberry. The Associated Press requested comment through an aide after business hours on Monday in Kabul.
I guarantee you these are some blockbuster comments by McChrystal against Eikenberry and others. Some other tidbits, according to the WSJ McChrystal badmouths pretty much everyone
In that Esquire piece, however, Fallon appeared to directly contradict White House policy on Iran and other parts of the Middle East; the Rolling Stone article makes no such allegation, but rather is full of jokey put-downs of important Washington players.
Comments in the article attributed to anonymous McChrystal aides are particularly harsh towards some senior members of the Obama administration, including National Security Adviser James Jones, and other leading politicians, like Sens. John Kerry (D., Mass.) and John McCain (R., Ariz). They also make some unflattering references to President Barack Obama himself, saying the president didn’t seem to know who McChrystal was when he appointed him to run the war early last year.
Only Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is portrayed as having strongly backed McChrystal’s plan for Afghanistan, is singled out for praise by the anonymous McChrystal aides.
Listen, I agree with the war and the reason why we're there, but McChrystal has clearly put himself into some rough waters with these comments and he's going to have to explain them.