Obama picks Petraeus for Afghanistan, is McChrystals career over?
Obama has asked Gen. David Petraeus to take over the troubled nine year-old war in Afghanistan. Petraeus is the direct boss of McChrystal.
GENERAL STANLEY McChrystal has been taken out from the post of top US commander in Afghanistan on Wednesday by Barack Obama due to his scathing published remarks about administration officials which clearly undermine civilian control of the military and erode the needed trust on the president's war team. Obama hit several gracious notes about McChrystal and his service, and said that the resignation was decided upon with considerable regret. He said that the job in Afghanistan cannot be done now under McChrystal's leadership,owing to the critical remarks from the general and his inner circle in the Rolling Stone magazine article displayed conduct not in accord to the necessary standards for a command-level officer. Obama’s decisions seem to mark an end to McChrystal's military career. However Obama in his speech included his praise of the general that the nation should be grateful "for his remarkable career in uniform." McChrystal left the White House following his Oval Office call to accounts, and returned to his military quarters at Washington's Fort McNair. A senior military official said there is no immediate decision about whether he would retire from the Army, which has been his entire career.
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