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June 23, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): General Stanley McChrystal is the powerful commandant of the American battle against the terroristic Taliban in Afghanistan. He has purportedly presented an offer to give up his job. The offer to resign comes in the aftermath of the furor generated by the censorious observations of the General and his subordinates on certain officials of the administration of Barack Obama, the US President.

President Obama has uttered that the General had exhibited deficient judgment. Obama also mentioned at the end of the meeting of his Cabinet that he would prefer to communicate with the General in detail about the General’s critical remarks. Obama ordered the General to depart from Afghanistan and return to America to have a chat with Obama. It was only after the chat that the President will take a call on the General’s future. The General’s controversial declarations had been published in an article in ‘Rolling Stone.’

The impending article in ‘Rolling Stone’ has been dubbed by some political analysts as an implicit challenge, by an influential American military chief, to the civilian administration of the Afghan war from Washington.

Defense Secretary, Robert Gates, asserted that the General had committed an enormous blunder by participating in the Rolling Stone profile. In the profile, the subordinates of the General had referred to one important official of Obama’s administration as ‘a clown’ and another bureaucrat had been labeled a ‘wounded animal’. The General had himself pronounced contemptuous observations about some bureaucrats of the Obama administration.

In the Rolling Stone article, the General has been cited as stating that he was let down by Karl Eikenberry. Eikenberry is the diplomatic associate of the General in Afghanistan. The General has also accused Eikenberry of casting aspersions on the capability of Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, only so that Eikenberry could rescue himself if the American war effort floundered.

The General has expressed remorse for his inappropriate comments to Rolling Stone. Presidential spokesperson, Robert Gibbs, has asserted that Obama had accepted the General’s expression of remorse and that the President deemed that the General must be supplied a chance to defend himself. The verdict on the General’s future will be enunciated after his dialogue with Obama on Wednesday.