I just finally read the article. Excuse my tardiness, please.

This is strange. I didn't see all that much in it that was objectionable. I'm having to reevaluate my take on the situation.

The article reports that he's not on a good footing with the Ambassador. So? Ditto as to some other relatively high officials. So?

I don't recall any disparaging remarks about the Secretary of Defense.

I recall only one sort of slighting reference to the President, about how he ought not to be a clown. Oh, yes, and that at an early meeting (perhaps even before election) Obama had seemed intimidated.
Two quibbles there: "before election", and "seemed", which is McChrystal's personal take, if he actually said it. I personally don't find any of that so egregious.

It's pretty clear from the article that he doesn't have high respect or a good relationship with Biden. Biden is not, as far as I know, in McChrystal's chain of command. And I don't think there were any actual derogatory comments about Biden in the article. I do recall some reference to Biden's "non-job" as vice-president. And that's true enough: the vice-presidency as the Constitution sets it out doesn't give the VP more than a token function, as president of the Senate. Many vice-presidents have been conspicuous by their frequent and prolonged absence from the actual exercise of their one constitutionally prescribed duty, and the republic has rolled on very nicely despite the absence, thank you. Which leaves a VP as a sort of utility man, for whatever job the President deigns to assign to him (if any), which is usually ceremonial. In any case, the VP has no actual power.

I've seen or read something about McChrystal being loose-lipped with the journalist while laid over at an airport bar. I didn't see anything like that in the article. So maybe there are other things out there of which I'm unaware which might be much more objectionable.

I believe my previous posts were appropriate to the situation as I've heard/seen it reported or commented on in the media. But it doesn't appear to me, solely from reading the Rolling Stone article, that all that powerful a case is to be made for insubordination.

All water over the dam, of course. The President made a decision he's entitled to make, and we move on.

Dave Oesterreich