An article in the July 8-22 edition of Rolling Stone magazine shows Gen. Stanley McChrystal or his aides talking in sharply derisive terms about Vice President Joseph Biden; Ambassador Karl Eikenberry; Richard Holbrooke, the special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan; and an unnamed minister in the French government. One of McChrystal's aides is quoted as referring to national-security adviser James Jones as a "clown."
The article, entitled "The Runaway General," quotes aides of McChrystal saying the general was "pretty disappointed" by an Oval Office meeting with President Obama soon after he took office, and that he found the president "uncomfortable and intimidated" during a Pentagon meeting with McChrystal and several other generals. The article, however, does not mention serious policy differences with Obama.
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