{"id":6046,"date":"2010-06-22T14:26:05","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T19:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=6046"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:04:38","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:04:38","slug":"general-summoned-to-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/06\/22\/general-summoned-to-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"General summoned to White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-6047\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/06\/Gen.-Stanley-McChrystal-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Gen. Stanley McChrystal\" width=\"74\" height=\"74\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/06\/Gen.-Stanley-McChrystal-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/06\/Gen.-Stanley-McChrystal-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/06\/Gen.-Stanley-McChrystal.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 74px) 100vw, 74px\" \/>The commander of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/\">U.S.<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nato.int\/cps\/en\/natolive\/index.htm\">NATO<\/a> forces in Afghanistan, <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/topics\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/m\/stanley_a_mcchrystal\/index.html\">General Stanley McChrystal<\/a> (r.), has been <a title=\"summoned\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hDfobiEoLOLyWINbk1t41LOREw5QD9GGFK001\" target=\"_blank\">summoned <\/a>to the White House to explain in person some controversial public remarks he made which were critical of the Obama administration.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/\">Political science<\/a> Professor <a title=\"Graham Wilson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/people\/faculty\/professorgrahamwilson\/\" target=\"_blank\">Graham Wilson<\/a>, author of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.questia.com\/PM.qst?a=o&amp;d=23283540\"><em>Only in America? American Politics in Comparative Perspective<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; says presidential power is cumulative and so is its loss &#8211; so looking feeble in one policy area makes a president lose authority in completely unrelated areas, too.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cMore generally, this turmoil at the top of the Allied effort in Afghanistan further destroys public confidence in that war.\u00a0 Divided leadership plus continuing casualties equals loss of public support.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Graham Wilson, 617-353-2540, <a href=\"mailto:gkwilson@bu.edu\">gkwilson@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal (r.), has been summoned to the White House to explain in person some controversial public remarks he made which were critical of the Obama administration.\u00a0 Political science Professor Graham Wilson, author of &#8220;Only in America? American Politics in Comparative Perspective,&#8221; says presidential power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[116,3110,3109,2845,212,3209,3212,2892,3210,2953,3211],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6046"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7695,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6046\/revisions\/7695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}