Frontline has posted its unaired interview with Gen. McChrystal, which was conducted Aug. 1. In it, he seems to believe that the president is solidly behind his counterinsurgency strategy:
Read more ....Q: But he [President Obama] had made a speech, laying out what was termed in the press a "new strategy." ... What was different?
A: In the strategy that he laid out? Well, I think the decision [as] he described it in that strategy was to do a fully resourced counterinsurgency strategy, to focus on first preventing Al Qaeda['s] return to safe havens -- it had been here before 9/11 -- but then also to review the way we fought. And I think that the fully resourced part that we were going to provide enough forces to do what we felt we had to do was a major change.
My Comment: What a difference 2 months makes. From having the full endorsement of the President to a counterinsurgency strategy .... to being relegated by the National Security Adviser as a man with an opinion.