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RUSH: Marco in Charleston, South Carolina. Great to have you on the program, Marco. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, it\u2019s Michael in Charleston.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Michael! Thank you very much for the call, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, listen, Rush, I last spoke to you in \u201907 when my son-in-law was killed in Afghanistan by a Taliban sniper. You know, I think that General McChrystal knew exactly what he was doing and he did it willingly. I think he fell on the proverbial sword and willingly gave up his career for the guys that he\u2019s leading in Afghanistan because of what\u2019s going on over there. I think that because he tendered his resignation, this is going to cause everyone to have a laser-like focus on what exactly is going on over there and have to review everything and maybe change some things for the positive for the guys that are over there risking their lives.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me jump in here as host. I tell you, what: We\u2019re going to have an extended segment on this, the whole McChrystal and Petraeus thing, in the next hour<\/a> of the program. I know a lot of people think that McChrystal tendered his resignation to cause everybody to have a laser-like focus on what is exactly going on over there and to review everything. Many people are opining on this. One of the stark opinions that I\u2019ve seen (it might be John Podhoretz, I\u2019m not sure who it is) said that regardless, now, Obama owns this, and he\u2019s gotta let Petraeus do what he wants to do after you go out and get Petraeus and save the day here. You can\u2019t now turn down what Petraeus asks for \u2019cause he\u2019s now demanded unity. You know, no division. So what\u2019s happened here? <\/p>\n

In some people\u2019s opinion, look at what\u2019s happened here is in order to save his bacon, Obama\u2019s had to go get a ‘Bush general his party hates in order to save his bacon in the war in the Afghanistan, and despite Obama being the commander-in-chief, it\u2019s really Petraeus now \u2019cause he holds all the cards \u2019cause he is the safety valve. But there\u2019s Marc Ambinder. It\u2019s a blog out there at The Atlantic, and buried in a long piece about McChrystal — listen to this, now. This is Marc Ambinder in The Atlantic. ‘Even more about McChrystal: now it can be told. The story about him voting for Obama is not contrived. He is a political liberal. He is a social liberal,\u2019 and he is a wacko environmentalist liberal. ‘He banned Fox News from the television sets in his headquarters.\u2019 He has banned fast food, Burger King and all that from his headquarters and from people in his command. <\/p>\n

Ambinder says, yeah, really. ‘This serves to put to rest another false rumor: that McChrystal deliberately precipitated his firing because he wants to run for President.\u2019 If this is true — and I have no doubt, it\u2019s Marc Ambinder and the Atlantic — this explains why he trusted some reporter from Rolling Stone. If this guy is as far left as he is — and, by the way, if this is true (and I happen to believe it now), if this is the case, you can\u2019t say that Obama got rid of McChrystal for politics. They\u2019re two peas in a pod here. The guy voted for Obama. So whatever PR somebody wants to attach to it. Obama just got rid of a like-minded soul except for the fact that McChrystal likes to pull the trigger and kill the bad guys and Obama doesn\u2019t. McChrystal likes to win. Obama doesn\u2019t. But now Obama has been maneuvered into a position where the only option is to win, because that\u2019s what you go get Petraeus for. That\u2019s why you get rid of McChrystal. So now Obama\u2019s really screwed himself and the left-wing base because he\u2019d made it clear he\u2019s hired Bush\u2019s most hated general — the successful architect of Iraq, of the surge, counterinsurgency strategy — and charged him with winning. What do you do bet that July 11th withdrawal date gets moved now? Whatever Petraeus wants, folks, we receive.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, this Ambinder piece documenting the far left wing liberalism of Stanley McChrystal kind of puts this MacArthur comparison in perspective, does it not? MacArthur, they tried to say, ‘This is Obama, he\u2019s every bit as tough as Truman.\u2019 Well, that\u2019s kind of blown to hell now, that whole analogy.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Look, I cannot emphasize this enough. McChrystal and Obama, policy-wise, were on the same page. They were in total agreement on policy. In this Rolling Stone piece whatever McChrystal and his aides said was aimed at the folks who opposed Obama\u2019s policy, and who were they? Vice President Bite Me, John Kerry (who served in Vietnam), Jim Jones his national security guy, Richard Holbrooke, and this guy Eikenberry. But those guys are kept on in the national security team, and the general — who was on the same page with Obama policy-wise, other than the number of troops on the ground. McChrystal didn\u2019t get the boots he wanted and he doesn\u2019t like the time frame, but in terms of everything else they were pretty much on the same page. So he goes. If Obama really wanted to get rid of the division, getting rid of the general was the wrong guy to get rid of. <\/line><\/p>\n

Get rid of the clowns in his own national security team. Vice President Bite Me, Holbrooke, and Eikenberry especially. That\u2019s where the rift is, or was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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