{"id":549,"date":"2010-06-23T19:37:28","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T23:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?p=549"},"modified":"2019-06-23T05:48:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T09:48:12","slug":"chastising-the-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=549","title":{"rendered":"Chastising the General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stanley_A._McChrystal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">General McChrystal affair<\/a> has dominated the news media today. I have no intention of debating the merit or demerits of the war in Afghanistan, but rather about the coverage of the incident itself.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA bevy of commentators and government officials are trotted out to deal with the following two questions:\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Were the General&#8217;s comments insubordination or not?<\/li>\n<li>What should be the appropriate punishment for the General?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\nBut none of these highly paid experts have asked the far more interesting questions.\n<\/p>\n<p><em>Why is the military brass in near mutiny against their civilian leaders?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Is Joe Biden respectable (that is, worthy of respect) as a world leader?<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;m not in a position to answer such questions, but they should have been asked. The easy road is &#8220;gotcha&#8221; journalism, where the only issue is whether or not something said should have been. The actual content of the thought, whether it expresses truth or not, is simply irrelevant in today&#8217;s environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The General McChrystal affair has dominated the news media today. I have no intention of debating the merit or demerits of the war in Afghanistan, but rather about the coverage of the incident itself. A bevy of commentators and government officials are trotted out to deal with the following two &hellip; <span class=\"continue-reading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=549\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[138,137],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-afghanistan","tag-general-mcchrystal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}