Blackfive has disowned Yon, and say he has gone off the reservation. Yon at least had the guts and integrity to post this link on his FB page. Read the comments too. Damn.
Really! I didn’t know that-Thanks for the head’s up.
“Life was good before I went to Iraq. But after three friends were killed during the GWOT, and my growing mistrust for the media and for the US Government/Military, I quit traveling the world and went to war. The United States was in peril. I am American. Today, I do not trust McChrystal anymore than some people trust the New York Times, Obama or Bush. If McChrystal could be trusted, I would go back to my better life. McChrystal is a great killer but this war is above his head. He must be watched..”
THIS is what they are calling unhinged?
I got news. Anyone who has kept up with the many, many threads here on McChrystal would absolutely agree with this assessment including me. ALL the info on McChrystal and what he has done in Afghanistan and before did not come from Michael Yon...and I had not even seen this from Yon.
Furthermore. McChrystal’s history of covering up IS well known. SO well known in fact, that it cost him a promotion and a command position.
What seems to be going down at Black Five is a personal feud involving people who seem to want to take McChrystal’s press releases as gospel.
I don’t know about anyone’s personal issues with Yon. I DO know that he has not been the only source in Afghanistan who has made these kinds of statements because unlike them, I have not followed Yon as my one and only source for information, but I HAVE followed McChrystal since day one and what they are upset about at Black Five from Yon is stuff I have posted here without ever seeing one word from Yon on the subject.
What they are calling unhinged lies is the absolute truth. if they prefer not to believe it, fine. That does not make it less true.
Actually, they sound too damn cliquey for my comfort.