[Peace-discuss] McChrystal as murderer & assassin

[C. G. Estabrook]

[That's what endeared him to Obama in the first place. The following is from the 
RS article.]

     It doesn't hurt that McChrystal was also extremely successful as head of 
the Joint Special Operations Command, the elite forces that carry out the 
government's darkest ops. During the Iraq surge, his team killed and captured 
thousands of insurgents, including Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda 
in Iraq. "JSOC was a killing machine," says Maj. Gen. Mayville, his chief of 
operations. McChrystal was also open to new ways of killing. He systematically 
mapped out terrorist networks, targeting specific insurgents and hunting them 
down -- often with the help of cyberfreaks traditionally shunned by the 
military. "The Boss would find the 24-year-old kid with a nose ring, with some 
fucking brilliant degree from MIT, sitting in the corner with 16 computer 
monitors humming," says a Special Forces commando who worked with McChrystal in 
Iraq and now serves on his staff in Kabul. "He'd say, 'Hey -- you fucking 
muscleheads couldn't find lunch without help. You got to work together with 
these guys.'"

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