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Michael Hastings Rolling Stone article "The General" Runaway "(June 22, 2010) Profile of the relationship between the General Stanley McChrystal, and the Obama administration, may cause long-term changes in policy and war strategy in Afghanistan . McCrystal and his colleagues were cited mocking the president and his advisers and derogatory comments on political leaders such as Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, John Kerry.

VoteVets.org, however, published a petition on its website calling for the release of General McCrystal. According to the organization, "The effectiveness of our armed forces without collapsing order and respect the chain of command … It's time to leave." Robert Dreyfuss, writing in The Nation (June 22, 2010) is more direct: "It has been clear for some time McCrystal was a rebel, and generally power hungry, sees Afghanistan as a place to prove their worth and their right theories and all the other bad.."

Americans who agree with the increase of troops in Afghanistan, promoted by McCrystal in 2009 on the recommendation of Vice President Joe Biden who rely on technology such as unmanned aerial vehicles, boxes flooded comment in support of the General Assembly, using the story in the context of criticizing the Obama administration. A reader responds to the coverage of this story in the hills (June 22, 2010) writes: "I am delighted McCrystal! I respect his integrity and honesty." Another reader says: "That said McCrystal is slight compared with what politicians say the troops "..

Simon Tisdall writes in The Guardian (June 22, 2010), "Supreme Commander of NATO in Afghanistan could be a general measure – but as a political soldier, is a disaster MacArthur. The International Herald Tribune (22 June 2010) reported later in the day that General McCrystal had prepared a resignation letter. On June 23, 2002 Telegraph McCrystal said the president has already offered his resignation and that, "The White House is actively considering the length of a successor could be confirmed by the Senate … "The newspaper also reported that two senior officers, General James Mattis and Lt. Gen. William Caldwell," were discussed at a possible replacement.. "

Stanley McCrystal, however, has crossed the line of disrespect. His own national security adviser Gen. Jones called a "clown." Vice President Biden has also been insulted. Obama could ask the same question. Mr. "Why, in God's name did not trust the system of government is so eager to protect the hell?" The President has requested. In 1964 the film Seven Days in May, a fictional president faces an ambitious general, after insisting on his resignation. In his commentary says that Barack Obama was not ready to be president.

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