Michael Tomasky: Did McChrystal want this outcome?

Jim Sleeper bruits an interesting McChrystal theory. Well, actually, it comes from someone named David Seaton, whom Jim credits, but I read it on Jim's regular venue at TPM Cafe:

Seaton suggests that McChrystal -- furious at Obama's time-lines and under-commitment of troops and resources to what the general believes should be a massive counterinsurgency, embedded in a total war -- wanted to be fired, so that blame for the inevitable defeat of the present effort would be placed on Obama and...