Diana West: Fire McChrystal? Updated

Fire McChrystal? Updated

Jun 22 Written by: Diana West
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 3:59 AM

There are many, many reasons to fire Gen. McChrystal, as I first began noting back in September 2009, and they all begin with the criminally irresponsible rules of engagement (ROEs) that are predicated on a politically correct, see-no-Islam, hothouse-academic, socially-engineering vision of the world as it isn't that has cost all too many of our men's lives, limbs, and well- being, not to mention countless billions of dollars, and lost power and prestige that once safeguarded us against our enemies.

Firing McChrystal without also "firing" the disastrous counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy as codified by the equally culpable Gen. Petraeus does nothing to help the country out of this unrelieved nightmare of pointlessly wasteful, harmful-to-our-interests, seemingly endless war. In other words, it just doesn't matter if McChrystal's fired for "insubordination," or not. So long as COIN rules, someone just as bad will step in to fill his place. Meanwhile, the "pundits" (plural) cited in Politico's report come down to Joe Scarborough, and that's it. Read more...