There were no comments quoted specifically to McChrystal anywhere in that article
Perhaps your message is inconsistent because you keep making statements without backing them up.
Quote me a specific quote by McChrystal from that article about Barack Obama.
Quote me a specific quote in that article from McChrystal about Joe Biden other than his statement of wanting to say "Whose that" in reference to getting numerous questions regarding his views on the VP.
Also, hell, quote me the specific quote from the article regarding the NSA Chief, cause I'm blanking on that as well.
Perhaps you're message isn't being misunderstood, perhaps you're just poorly presenting it.
Perhaps. Everyone else seems to understand it but you..but perhaps its me...so...I will try...one last time...
For the record...I dont believe anything said was a MCM violation.
From the top...in the article...
Gives an aide (a bird Colonel) a one finger bird salute...kinda funny...maybe not wise in the frpesence of a reporter.
McChrystals aides comments to that reporter about a state dinner with the french "Its ****in gay".
Again...Not brilliant.
Past public comments re Vice President Joe Biden as "shortsighted," saying his position would lead to a state of "Chaos-istan."
OK...blowin off steam...no big deal...
"Then, unable to help themselves, he and his staff imagine the general dismissing the vice president with a good one-liner.
"Are you asking about Vice President Biden?" McChrystal says with a laugh. "Who's that?"
"Biden?" suggests a top adviser. "Did you say: Bite Me?"
Now...I imagine Biden is the OPPOSITE of a clean, well spoken black man...but again...starting to see a trend...and in front of the kids...
"According to sources familiar with the meeting, McChrystal thought Obama looked "uncomfortable and intimidated" by the roomful of military brass. Their first one-on-one meeting took place in the Oval Office four months later, after McChrystal got the Afghanistan job, and it didn't go much better. "It was a 10-minute photo op," says an adviser to McChrystal. "Obama clearly didn't know anything about him, who he was. Here's the guy who's going to run his ****ing war, but he didn't seem very engaged. The Boss was pretty disappointed."
For one thing...we are starting to notice that the general and his staff have the same kind of potty mouth Biden has. And the trend continues...by itself not that big a deal...but in front of a reporter?
"But part of the problem is personal: In private, Team McChrystal likes to talk **** about many of Obama's top people on the diplomatic side. One aide calls Jim Jones, a retired four-star general and veteran of the Cold War, a "clown" who remains "stuck in 1985.""
Not exactly building positive working relationships with the administration!
"McChrystal reserves special skepticism for Holbrooke, the official in charge of reintegrating the Taliban. "The Boss says he's like a wounded animal," says a member of the general's team. "Holbrooke keeps hearing rumors that he's going to get fired, so that makes him dangerous. He's a brilliant guy, but he just comes in, pulls on a lever, whatever he can grasp onto. But this is COIN, and you can't just have someone yanking on ****."
At one point on his trip to Paris, McChrystal checks his BlackBerry. "Oh, not another e-mail from Holbrooke," he groans. "I don't even want to open it." He clicks on the message and reads the salutation out loud, then stuffs the BlackBerry back in his pocket, not bothering to conceal his annoyance.
"Make sure you don't get any of that on your leg," an aide jokes, referring to the e-mail."
Are you noticing a trend? It doesnt appear to be a healthy working relationship...and when you have a few hundred thousand lives that DEPEND on maintaining that working relationship...
OK...at the end of the day...none of this is THAT big a deal. But the reality is...it looks like the RS reporter went to hang McChrystal and McChrystal didnt just put his head in a noose, he bought the guy a shiny new rope. Taken straight from the comments (comments to which the gen and staff apologized...a pretty good indicator that they are true), the general and his staff gave public voice to dissent. I cant see how they could POSSIBLY have expected to function in a positive manner with the administration. Worthy of court martial? of course not...never suggested it was. But enough to be removed? Of course.