Even if you are right, he had an obligation, as does any commander, to put a stop to that kind of insubordination

You mean like sacking the person responsible for the remarks from his job Don T? Because that is what McChrystal did.

It doesn't matter what he thought of the administration, he didn't have the right to allow it to be ridiculed in a media rag.

And McChrystal could prevent that reporter from writing what he had obtained from others how exactly Don T?

Fact is that none of the remarks are directly attributable to McChrystal, however reading contributions to this thread people are talking as though they were made by McChrystal - they weren't.

As for Afghanistan it is not an American War; it is not a NATO War. ALL foreign forces, and they come from some 43 countries, are present under duly authorised United Nations Mandates. Afghanistan is a United Nations intervention involving two specifically created organisations UNAMA and ISAF.