Obama Rebukes Mc Chrystal

• Expect spurt in Afghan violence: General Petraeus

  Top American military commander General David Petraeus headed for Afghanistan warned of escalating violence there in the coming months on Tuesday. He said that he would not be surprised by links between Pakistan's spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and the Taliban, who have established a safe haven in Pakistan's restive tribal region."Let...

• Pakistan exploits US woes in Afghanistan

  Pakistan is exploiting the troubled United States military effort in Afghanistan to drive home a political settlement with Afghanistan that would give Pakistan important influence there but is likely to undermine United States interests, Pakistani and American officials said.The dismissal of Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal will almost certainly embolden...

• Gen Petraeus taking control of a 'Tougher Fight'

  In late 2008, shortly after he had helped pull Iraq back from the brink of catastrophe, Gen. David H. Petraeus prepared to turn to that other American war. "I've always said that Afghanistan would be the tougher fight," General Petraeus said at the time.Now the burden falls to him, at perhaps the decisive moment in President Obama's campaign to rev...

• Who is General McChrystal?

  Like his boss, mentor and friend, Gen. David H. Petraeus, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal modeled himself as one of a new breed of American commanders: intellectual, open with the press and as politically savvy as the elected officials he was hired to serve.In that respect, the two four-star generals -- Petraeus in Iraq, McChrystal in Afghanistan -- per...

• General McChrystal's fate in limbo as he prepares to meet Obama

  President Obama's top commander in Afghanistan flew to Washington on Tuesday to find out whether he would be fired for remarks he and members of his staff made that were contemptuous of senior administration officials, laying bare the disarray and enmity in a foreign-policy team that is struggling with the war. (Read: Who is Gen McChrystal) In an a...

• Obama rebukes top US commander for 'poor judgement'

  General Stanley McChrystal's job appeared in grave jeopardy on Tuesday as an infuriated President Barack Obama summoned the Afghanistan war's US commander to Washington to explain his extraordinary complaints about the President and his aides.Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs said "without a doubt, General McChrystal, as Secretary Gates has said, ...