re: #376 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

Barring your being omniscient, you’d generally need an open act of defiance to take such actions, right? That seems to be McChrystal’s crime, not that he has a poor opinion of Obama, but that he voiced it in earshot of the press.

No. That is not the problem. The General allowed a climate to exist where the civilian authority and chain of command was ridiculed and questioned. This had to be something that was well known beyond his top aides.
He should have never allowed any of this to happen. We are at war and he is the General responsible for the lives of our young men and women. This is much more than petty “office talk”.