Wednesday, June 23, 2010
President Obama picks David Petraeus.
President Barack Obama has relieved Gen. Stanley McChrystal of command of U.S. forces in Afghanistan and replaced him Gen. David Petraeus — putting a general well-known throughout the world for his work in Iraq in charge of the mission in Afghanistan. Obama said Wednesday he made the decision with regret but “with the certainty that it’s the right thing for the mission in Afghanistan, for our military and for our country.” He also said it “saddened” him to lose the services of McChrystal. Obama also stressed that the decision was a change in personnel not of policy — signaling that he would stick with a war plan that was McChrystal’s creation, focused on counterinsurgency, routing the Taliban from its strongholds and supporting the Afghan government of President Hamid Karzai.Link
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