Hannity and Coulter criticize "thin-skinned" Obama over McChrystal resignation

Just what I was thinking! They'd at least want him court martialed and tried for treason.

Well, let's see: Geneva Conventions, habeas corpus,4th Amendment; I'd say we toss'em when we're scared. Home of the Brave indeed.

Is it really worse to resign because you disagree with the way Obama is handling the war than to violate the UCMJ? I find it hard to believe that public perception is a motivating factor for any sort of "educated, intelligent" decision there.

I dont know - I think there were other ways to get out so that he didn't have to resign in disgrace. He now looks like a childish insubordinate who may have compromised the war effort even further by revealing a fracture in the central leadership. This was just about the worst possible way to try to maneuver his way out of the job - He would have been better off being called a quitter than whatever he will be called now - reckless, stupid, undisciplined, etc. For an intelligent guy, this was a really dumb move no matter how you slice it - whether he had a gigantic lapse in judgement or this was some meticulous plan.

I wonder if this wasn't the rantings of a drunken day stuck in an airport bar. Didn't they begin the conversation because they could not fly due to the volcano?

Many a drunken man has dug his own grave.

It's impossible to know what's truly in people's minds or hearts, but I can believe that Gen. McChrystal was unhappy with that Command, and that in his heart of hearts he'd want out of Afghanistan never to return again (there's probably tens of thousands of U.S. Troops feel exactly the same way), and whatever his thoughts truly are, that's what happened, he's gone and he's not going back.

There's no sensible mission in Afghanistan, and so after a while just about everyone comes to the conclusion that this is just a waste of life and limb and treasure (billions and billions siphoned off from the U.S. Treasury and into private corporate accounts, like Lockheed-Martin and Halliburton, that's the true objective served by IRAQ and now Afghanistan).

There's no true U.S. National Security purpose being served by U.S. Troops in Afghanistan, there's no true defense of the American people there, there's just a bunch of rural mountain and village guerrillas who've never even been to the U.S., but with each passing day of occupation and with each and every Drone strike, they want to come to the U.S., they want to trade bombing for bombing... this is what happens when we fail to accuse saudis for the attacks of September 11 2001, and for all the other terrorism they finance and direct worldwide (including the IED 'insurgency' in IRAQ and most likely the now common car bombings there), this is what happens when we believe George W. Bush and allow him to saddle up the U.S. Armed Forces and send them off to Afghanistan, when in fact the 9-11 hijackers were carrying saudi passports...

Anyway, enough of that, this nightmare has lasted too long already, and who knows when it will end, but as for Gen. McChrystal, it's no longer any concern of his, he'll never return to Afghanistan (except maybe to wrap things up), he's out of there, and he's relieved of that frustrating Command and of that senseless mission.

Every U.S. Troop over there should be so lucky.

Hey, brab! Nice to see you back posting. =)

That would involve wing nuts like these two to actually remember something before Jan 20, 2009, and we know anything that Bush did is gone in history and completely forgotten.

This is pretty much the consensus of the "responsible" press, even the right-leaning MSM.