The punishment was quick to General Stanley McChrystal. 24 hours after the publication of an interview highly critical of the strategy of the Obama administration, the chief of U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan was revoked Wednesday. The American president has chosen to replace General David Petraeus. “This is a change of the man, not of the strategy,” insisted the Democratic president. He also claimed his team, undermined by internal conflicts, a unity of effort on the Afghan file. Petraeus’s appointment must still be confirmed by the Senate. The general, Stanley McChrystal supervisor as chief of U.S. Central Command oversees operations in the Middle East as well as interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was the architect of the “surge” against the insurgency of 2007, which has improved security in Iraq.

Asked to explain his confidence in Rolling Stone, General Stanley McChrystal, based in Kabul, was summoned to the White House. The meeting between the senior and the president lasted 20 minutes. During his speech, Barack Obama defended himself from sin of pride. “War is more important than a man, he was a soldier, a general or a president.” If McChrystal pointed out its functions is not “due to personal insults but because his conduct did not satisfy the criteria required for a general and threatened to undermine the confidence of the troops and American strategists .

“Considerable Regret ” for Obama

Paying tribute to the career of Stanley McChrystal, Barack Obama said to see him go “with considerable regret”, but “it is a good decision for national security and our soldiers,” he said. For its part, the general said will “see the mission” of the United States in Afghanistan “successful”. “I support the presidential strategy in Afghanistan”