{"id":1997,"date":"2010-06-23T13:45:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T13:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1997"},"modified":"2010-06-23T13:45:08","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T13:45:08","slug":"general_petraeus_will_replace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1997","title":{"rendered":"General Petraeus Will Replace General McChrystal In Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/105021-reports-mcchrystal-out-\">The Hill<\/a>&nbsp;is reporting that President Obama has accepted the resignation of General McChrystal and that General Petraeus will replace him in Afghanistan.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The resignation of General McChrystal&nbsp;is unfortunate, but necessary in light of the Rolling Stone article.&nbsp; Even if the remarks quoted in the Rolling Stone article were made&nbsp;by his staff and not directly by him, the remarks are still considered insubordination and have to be dealt with.<\/p>\n<p>General Petraeus did a fantastic job in Iraq and hopefully can do the same in Afghanistan.&nbsp; I know someone who went to high school with him, and she has told me that even then, General Petraeus was respected as a leader.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>It is difficult to change horses in midstream, but if we have to do it, I believe that General Petraeus can step into the job as commander in Afghanistan quite effectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill&nbsp;is reporting that President Obama has accepted the resignation of General McChrystal and that General Petraeus will replace him in Afghanistan.&nbsp; The resignation of General McChrystal&nbsp;is unfortunate, but necessary in light of the Rolling Stone article.&nbsp; Even if the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1997\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}