Obama's Hissy Fit

[A Black Falcon]

I don't think this will be forgotten anytime soon. I'm pretty sure it'll be used against Obama in 2012. Also note that to this day, Truman's firing of MacArthur has not been forgotten. MacArthur was also fired in the midst of a war and Truman, like Obama now, received a lot of flack for it. In Truman's defense, however, MacArthur was batshit crazy and would've taken us to war with China if he had his way.

While Obama's additional defense could be that McChrystal's strategy is failing?

Really though, Obama had to fire him, it'd look very weak to do anything else...

I mean, of course he had to be fired for saying such stupid comments, but really he should have known better... either he'd gotten a way too high sense of his own importance, or he wanted to leave, I think. Probably the former, from what I've read. And also, why leave someone in such an important position who can't stand any of the civilian authorities who he is supposed to be working for and with? I think the problems there should be very obvious!