Firing generals: Gotta happen sometime

A big
American general in Afghanistan got
the heave-ho for shooting his mouth off about Karzai. Lots of questioning
about why a guy is fired for telling the truth. The answer is, he should have
known better. In World War II, if a general had said on the record to reporters
what American officers really thought about Bernard Montgomery or the French,
Ike would have put that general on the next plane home, probably busted to
colonel and destined to run a bootcamp in a remote cypress swamp in
Mississippi.