{"id":1629,"date":"2010-06-24T21:11:43","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T02:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2010\/06\/24\/general-discharge-by-robert-scheer\/"},"modified":"2010-06-24T21:11:43","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T02:11:43","slug":"general-discharge-by-robert-scheer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2010\/06\/24\/general-discharge-by-robert-scheer\/","title":{"rendered":"General Discharge by Robert Scheer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the brilliant Rolling Stone article by Michael Hastings, President Barack Obama has no valid option other than to fire Gen. Stanley McChrystal. Not because of the dozen outrageous anti-administration verbal gaffes which have been reported, but rather because this definitive piece on the \u201cRunaway General\u201d establishes the man in charge of the Afghanistan misadventure as an egotistical flake whose half-baked Afghan war-fighting strategy should never have been endorsed in the first place. It is McChrystal\u2019s policy of counterinsurgency (COIN) that must be fired more than the man who exemplifies its irrationality. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/report\/item\/general_discharge_20100622\/\">Full article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the brilliant Rolling Stone article by Michael Hastings, President Barack Obama has no valid option other than to fire Gen. Stanley McChrystal. Not because of the dozen outrageous anti-administration verbal gaffes which have been reported, but rather because this definitive piece on the \u201cRunaway General\u201d establishes the man in charge of the Afghanistan misadventure &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2010\/06\/24\/general-discharge-by-robert-scheer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">General Discharge by Robert Scheer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}