{"id":192105,"date":"2009-05-11T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/11\/commander-in-afghanistan-fired\/"},"modified":"2009-05-11T17:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T22:18:00","slug":"commander-in-afghanistan-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/11\/commander-in-afghanistan-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"Commander in Afghanistan Fired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is odd, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/12\/world\/asia\/12military.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">General David McKiernan has been fired as commander in charge of the Afghan theater<\/a>, and replaced by General Stanley McChrystal.<\/p>\n<p>The claim is that McChrystal, with a special ops background, is better suited to the conflict, but this has unfolded very quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Note that McChrystal is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.registan.net\/index.php\/2009\/05\/11\/a-double-edged-sword\/\">hip deep in the Pat Tillman friendly fire coverup, as well as allegations of torture in Iraq<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No clue as to what is going on here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is odd, but General David McKiernan has been fired as commander in charge of the Afghan theater, and replaced by General Stanley McChrystal. The claim is that McChrystal, with a special ops background, is better suited to the conflict, but this has unfolded very quickly. Note that McChrystal is hip deep in the Pat &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153,1136,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-breaking-news","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}