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29.06.2010

In meiner aktuellen Kolumne geht es um die Ablösung von General McChrystal von seinem Kommando in Afghanistan:


In a spectacular move President Obama fired General Stanley McChrystal after the Rolling Stone magazine broke a story reporting his staff’s and his own disrespectful remarks about the president and his national security team.

The incident is not only meat for the tireless hosts of cable news shows; it also represents another chapter in the sometimes complicated relationship between the commander-in-chief and his generals. So it’s not coincidental that many commentators have drawn comparisons between Obama and Truman who, without further ado, replaced General Douglas McArthur after the latter had criticised his Korea policy.

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