McChrystal should go

Here. This is simple. General McChrystal should be ordered to resign. (Cf. Truman vis-a-vis Douglas MacArthur). This isn't an issue of whether you agree with McChrystal (I don't), or whether Obama will eventually order more troops in Afghanistan (I hope he doesn't; there's no plausible U.S. interest there any longer). It's that a general doesn't make policy, and doesn't go around making speeches contradicting the president or vice-president. He's not a private citizen. He's the president's general officer. Any general who does this should fully expect to be fired.