I have a feeling that this situation, regardless of McCrystal’s future, will not affect the chances of peace breaking out in Afghanistan at any time in the next 5 years.

By the way, I would say the chance of peace in Afghanistan within 5 years is less than 1 in 10,000.

That Bing Crosby song from White Christmas has been stuck in my head all day.

“Ohhh.. What do you do with a general, when he stops being a general?  Oooo-ohhh What do you do with a general who’s retired?”

Maybe it’s the cynic in me, but maybe he saw that war in Afghanistan is always a losing proposition—so, if effect, fuck it.

COIN doesn’t work; WHAM didn’t work. Ain’t no point riding a horse going nowhere.