By Con Coughlin World Last updated: June 22nd, 2010
Oh dear, I fear General Stanley McChrystal will be making a one-day trip to Washington after U.S. President Barack Obama summoned him to Washington to explain his less-than-flattering remarks about the Obama administration that are due to appear in this week’s edition of Rolling Stone magazine.
In the interview Gen McChrystal, the Spartan commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan who survives on one meal and four hours sleep a day (he also jogs eight miles), says he felt “betrayed” by Karl Eikenberry, the U.S. Ambassador to Kabul, while his senior aides were openly disparaging about Mr Obama and his senior White House officials.
Gen McChrystal has already apologised for the remarks, but that has not saved him from Mr Obama’s rage. There are still many misguided souls in this world who still believe that the American president is fundamentally a nice guy, who doesn’t get involved in petty political in-fighting.
Well, they are about to have a rude awakening. You don’t get to be elected President of the United States simply for a being a nice guy. You need to be a ruthless, political opportunist, and Mr Obama has these qualities in abundance, as Gen McChrystal is about to discover first hand.
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