Hard to imagine that a general talks like this to a freelance journalist without seeing the risk involved, and without knowing what now is coming to him. Not that I am a big fan of him, from the little I know aboput his Afghanistan strategy I am not, but I tend to assume he did his stunt intentionally, hoping to raise public attention that he would not have hpoped for if he had resigned first, and then made his statements.
In other words I think there are things going on regarding the war that make him both hopeless and desperate so that he chosed this PR Kamikaze stunt. This at least makes more sense to me than assuming he was acting mindlessly.
Trapped in the Afghan maze.
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