McChrystal Is Summoned to Washington Over Remarks

In a magazine article, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top commander in Afghanistan, was portrayed as openly contemptuous of some senior members of the Obama administration.

McChrystal Is Summoned to Washington Over Remarks

McChrystal is already guilty of war crimes through his tolerance of torture at Baghdad's "Camp Nama." His system of vast targeted assassination of local leaders of Afghani tribal elements is another case of attempting to pacify a population by eradicating it, or at least its entire leadership element. Such quasi-genocide must be met with the degree of contempt it deserves. The Soviet quagmire in Afghanistan cost a brutal toll in lives, both Soviet and Afghani, and left a puppet ruler who was immediately strung up and removed of his gonads by the remnant population upon Soviet withdrawal. It will take generations of repayments and fair dealing with the Afghani people to build any semblance of trust. Each day we there compounds the tragedy. For an immediate, total, and complete withdrawal of all occupying forces from Aghanistan, payment of reparations and aide, and tribunals for prosecution of all elements of American leadership, up to and including the president, for perpetuating this crime against humanity. Such will only be possible by a socialist restructing of society and an independent political mobilization of working people against the Obama administration and the profit interests of the corporations (the real source of militarism). The only party with any credibility to stand in this role is the Socialist Equality Party. They stand against both the Democrats and Republicans in their slavery to corporate and profit interests, and for the interests of peace and prosperity for the international working classes.

I have no use for communists. Marxists are just as bad.

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McChrystal’s Fate in Limbo as He Prepares to Meet Obama

By HELENE COOPER, THOM SHANKER and DEXTER FILKINS

President Obama said that Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal had shown “poor judgment” after his remarks in a magazine profile, and Pentagon officials said that the general had prepared a letter of resignation.