{"id":6084,"date":"2010-06-23T11:25:21","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T16:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=6084"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:04:27","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:04:27","slug":"the-general-and-the-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/06\/23\/the-general-and-the-president\/","title":{"rendered":"The general and the president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-6085\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/06\/Obama-McChrystal-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Obama &amp; McChrystal\" width=\"108\" height=\"108\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/topics\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/m\/stanley_a_mcchrystal\/index.html\">General Stanley McChrystal<\/a> met privately with President Obama over contemptuous remarks\u00a0the general\u00a0and his staff made about top administration officials in a magazine article.\u00a0 Shortly thereafter, Obama <a title=\"relieved\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/24\/us\/politics\/24mcchrystal.html?hp\" target=\"_blank\">relieved<\/a> the McChrystal of his command as head 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.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\">International relations<\/a> Professor <a title=\"Andrew Bacevich\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\/faculty\/alphabetical\/bacevich\/\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Bacevich<\/a>, a retired Army officer and authority on U.S. military and diplomatic history, says in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/\"><em>New York Daily News<\/em><\/a> <a title=\"commentary\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/8XvFEr\" target=\"_blank\">commentary<\/a> that Obama should have\u00a0pocketed any McChrystal resignation and tell him to get back to work pending the planned December formal assessment of the Afghan situation.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;But if by December the outlook for Afghanistan remains bleak, a change of command in Kabul will be very much in order &#8211; not for insubordination but for incompetence.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Andrew Bacevich, 617-358-0194, <a href=\"mailto:bacevich@bu.edu\">bacevich@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Stanley McChrystal met privately with President Obama over contemptuous remarks\u00a0the general\u00a0and his staff made about top administration officials in a magazine article.\u00a0 Shortly thereafter, Obama relieved the McChrystal of his command as head of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.\u00a0 International relations Professor Andrew Bacevich, a retired Army officer and authority on U.S. military [&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":[3227,3159,3225,3109,3222,3209,3226,1759,3160,3223,3224],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6084"}],"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=6084"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7693,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6084\/revisions\/7693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}