Roggio And The Arrow Of Time

By Steve Hynd

Is Bill Roggio being deliberately misleading about McChrystal's threat to resign if he doesn't get his way about more troops for Afghanistan? In a piece for Long War Journal which is getting a lot of play from rightwing blogs, Roggio writes:

Within 24 hours of the leak of the Afghanistan assessment to The Washington Post, General Stanley McChrystal's team fired its second shot across the bow of the Obama administration. According to McClatchy, military officers close to General McChrystal said he is prepared to resign if he isn't given sufficient resources (read "troops") to implement a change of direction in Afghanistan.

The trouble is, the McClatchy piece he cites was written and published before the leak to the Washington Post, so it was a first shot at best, not a "second shot". Roggio appears to have deliberately reversed the timeline in an attempt to make his case look stronger.

Given his long track record of stenography for the Petraeus faction in the military, maybe a better question would be: who is Roggio being deliberately misleading on behalf of?

Comments

[Kat]

Obama should ask Patraeus for his resignation -- in the interest of national security.