Change of Command in Afghanistan

Secretary of Defense Bill Gates fired the commander in Afghanistan, General McKiernan and brought in General McChrystal.

But, as linked to by Abu Muqawama, McChrystal has his own skeletons, including the cover-up of Pat Tillman's death and the operation of black camps where prisoners were tortured. Note that what was going on under McChrystal's command was so brutal that even the CIA refused to take part, in the same way and for the same reasons that the FBI refused to take part in what the CIA was doing.

When what is going on was so brutal that even the torturers were squeamish, something was going on that requires some serious investigations. McChrystal may be a terrific general. Yet if he was indeed one of the officers who were in the ring of torturers, his appointment may be a propaganda windfall for the enemy.

Springbored also points out that General Petraeus now owns the Afghan War. He also suggests that one of the reasons McKiernan was fired was because of logistical failures, which is rather amusing, given that in the last administration, the excuse for logistical failures was a snarky "you go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you need."