The latest undermining  scandal  in Washington surrounds a Rolling Stone article, “The Runaway General,” in which General Stanley McChrystal and his staff say a few less-than-respectful things about President Obama, Vice President Biden, and the administration’s Afghanistan team.

A quick sample of the comments:

On Joe Biden: “[McChrystal] and his staff imagine the general dismissing the vice president with a good one-liner.

“‘Are you asking about Vice President Biden?’ McChrystal says with a laugh. ‘Who’s that?’

“‘Biden?’ suggests a top adviser. ‘Did you say: Bite Me?’

On Obama: The general first encountered Obama a week after he took office, when the president met with a dozen senior military officials in a room at the Pentagon known as the Tank. According to sources familiar with the meeting, McChrystal thought Obama looked “uncomfortable and intimidated” by the roomful of military brass. Their first one-on-one meeting took place in the Oval Office four months later, after McChrystal got the Afghanistan job, and it didn’t go much better. “It was a 10-minute photo op,” says an adviser to McChrystal. “Obama clearly didn’t know anything about him, who he was. Here’s the guy who’s going to run his fucking war, but he didn’t seem very engaged. The Boss was pretty disappointed.”

On National Security Advisor Jim Jones: In private, Team McChrystal likes to talk shit about many of Obama’s top people on the diplomatic side. One aide calls Jim Jones, a retired four-star general and veteran of the Cold War, a “clown” who remains “stuck in 1985.”

On Richard Holbrooke: McChrystal reserves special skepticism for Holbrooke, the official in charge of reintegrating the Taliban. “The Boss says he’s like a wounded animal,” says a member of the general’s team. “Holbrooke keeps hearing rumors that he’s going to get fired, so that makes him dangerous. He’s a brilliant guy, but he just comes in, pulls on a lever, whatever he can grasp onto. But this is COIN, and you can’t just have someone yanking on shit.”

At one point on his trip to Paris, McChrystal checks his BlackBerry. “Oh, not another e-mail from Holbrooke,” he groans. “I don’t even want to open it.” He clicks on the message and reads the salutation out loud, then stuffs the BlackBerry back in his pocket, not bothering to conceal his annoyance.

“Make sure you don’t get any of that on your leg,” an aide jokes, referring to the e-mail.

President Barack Obama declared Gen. Stanley McChrystal guilty of “poor judgment” Tuesday but said he won’t make a decision on the commander’s fate until he talks with him first.  McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, was summoned to Washington today for a face-to-face meeting with the president tomorrow – a meeting where he’ll have to explain why he and his aides made disparaging remarks Vice President Joe Biden, special envoy Richard Holbrooke, ambassador Karl Eikenberry and others in the presence of a reporter for Rolling Stone.

I really think President Obama should put his foot down strategically.  Is it another way to tear down the democratic power and make our President look  ineffective? What do you all think? – Courtney L.
Source: Politico