The Biggest Question Regarding Gen. McChrystal's Rolling Stone Interview

Why the heck is the military brass in Afghanistan talking to Rolling Stone in the first place?

You would think after Generation Kill painted the war in Iraq in such a bad light, the Defense Department would have learned a little something. Namely, the writing staff of Rolling Stone is a bunch of young liberals catering to a readership of aging hippies. They are going to present the military in the worst light imaginable.

It certainly is not going to help matters any if McChrystal is playing Col. Kurtz of the desert.

Of course, I cannot help but think McChrystal is just expressing the contempt the military has for Obama and the political leadership he has surrounded himself with. He is not supposed to say that, mind you, particularly not to an reporter.