idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all.

I won't assume that McChrystal has read Generation Kill. It'd be nice if someone on Team America had read it, but I won't give anybody that much credit. What I will say is common sense would tell you that a journalist is not bound by the same code of conduct as a member of the US military, spoken or unspoken. To brazenly shoot your mouth off to someone who has no interest in covering your ass, whether it's at a meeting, in a Victor or lying on the bathroom floor of an Irish pub puking your guts out, that's stupid. So you get zero points for stupid. HOWEVER. You get minus points for as your daddy said, not doing your fucking job. I don't think McChrystal is a scapegoat I think he is a symptom of much MUCH bigger problems in the military, with these operations, with the administration and with the way the government operates as a whole, but you don't want me expounding for the next thirty minutes, trust. I think that McChrystal is a fucking distraction from the real issues though, chiefly for me, the fact that even the people on the ground aren't buying the moto shit and that they have doubts. And that upsets me.