"When you're dealing with the press, you're playing with a loaded gun." So said my first ambassador many years ago, and truer words were never spoken.
General Stanley McChrystal, the commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan, would surely have learned that long ago, and the unhappy results of his previous intemperate public remarks - which once earned him a personal, one-on-one rebuke from Barack Obama, the US president - should have served to underscore the lesson.
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