The 'Orgasmic' General McChrystal - New Military Commander in Afghanistan

[jefferson_dem]

The 'Orgasmic' General McChrystal

From Bob Woodward's The War Within:

Lieutenant General Stanley McChrystal, the commander of the Joint Special Opera tions Command (JSOC) responsible for hunting al Qaeda in Iraq, employed what he called “collaborative warfare,” using every tool available simultaneously, from signals intercepts to human intelligence and other methods, that allowed lightning-quick and sometimes concurrent operations. Derek Harvey, the DIA intelligence expert and adviser to Petraeus, said privately that the operations were so effective that they gave him “orgasms.”

http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2009/05/12/the-orgasmic-general-mcchrystal.aspx

[Buzz Clik]

1. That was a typo by Woodward. What he really said was, "they gave him 'the shingles'"

[Jennicut]

2. Bob Woodward makes up half the crap he writes today.

[NoPasaran]

3. If General McChrystal's tactics are effective

If General McChrystal's tactics are effective and result in success for us, I'd be happy to mop up after him.

[Crooked Moon]

4. even if he's pro-torture?

http://www.esquire.com/features/ESQ0806TERROR_102?click=main_sr

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/05/stanley-mcchrystal-a-history-of-torture.html\