Robert Gates niminated McChrystal for the Afghanistan post. If that doesn’t say anything about McChyrstal’s politics, NOTHING will.
Just another leftist undone by his own hubris.
The problem zero, et al, now have on their hands is the morale of the soldiers currently in, heading to, or possibly being sent to Afghanistan. All they see is chaos at the top and chaos at the top gets them killed.
I don’t see this having a good outcome.
I got “niminated” once while playing football. I was gimpy for a week.
“Robert Gates niminated McChrystal for the Afghanistan post. If that doesn’t say anything about McChyrstal’s politics, NOTHING will.”
FWIW, Gates was one of McChrystal’s strongest defenders during the very brief debate in the WH about whether he should stay or should go. Gates argued that sacking him would be really bad for military morale and the war effort in Afghanistan. In contrast, the political types in the WH were arguing he “had” to go (i.e., Obama’s letting him stay would make the CinC look bad/weak). Guess whose advise Obama followed!