McChrystal Recalled to DC After Article Slamming White House

General has some explaining to do after mocking, criticizing colleagues
By Newser Editors and Wire Services
Posted Jun 22, 2010 7:02 AM CDT
White House Recalls McChrystal Back to DC
In this May 10, 2010 file photo, Commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan Gen. Stanley McChrystal, and U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl W. Eikenberry brief reporters ahead of Afghan President Hamid Karzai's visit at the White House. An article out this week in "Rolling Stone" magazine depicts...   (Charles Dharapak)

The top US commander in Afghanistan has been summoned to Washington to explain his controversial comments about colleagues in a Rolling Stone interview, Obama administration officials said today. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who has issued an apology for the article—in which either he or his aides slammed Joe Biden, Richard Holbrooke, James Jones, and Karl Eikenberry, not to speak of expressing "disappointment" with the president and "wimps in the White House—has been ordered to attend the monthly meeting on Afghanistan and Pakistan in person tomorrow.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mike Mullen talked with McChrystal about the article last night. In a 10-minute conversation, the chairman "expressed his deep disappointment in the piece and the comments" in it, his spokesman said. McChrystal said today, "I have enormous respect and admiration for President Obama and his national security team, and for the civilian leaders and troops fighting this war and I remain committed to ensuring its successful outcome." (More Stanley McChrystal stories.)

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