The American Freedom Network

Gen. McCrystal Has To Go

The recent flap over Gen. Stanley McCrystal’s Rolling Stone profile will remind many of the Truman-MacArthur confrontation during the Korean War.  Then, as now, as always, the civilian Commander-in-Chief has to be supreme.  In or out of government, no real leader can tolerate subordinates disrespecting the, their team or their policies.  Grant that Gen. McCrystal’s criticisms are valid; grant that the Administration is mismanaging the war; grant that he may have forgotten more about war than Team Obama collectively knows, and one still arrives at the same conclusion as if none of the foregoing was true.  Insubordination, especially in wartime, cannot be tolerated.  The Army does not lack for talented and experienced generals; America can better survive the loss of Gen. McCrystal’s services than it can have its’ President, be he ever so wrong-headed, compromised by a display of disunion and and weakness.  It is best for all involved if the good General enjoys the retirement that his heretofore exemplary service has earned him – the sooner, the better.