SHOW UPDATE:  Folks – sorry about today!  Well into our interview we had a complete internet meltdown, forcing us off the air!   We’re putting up the fascinating conversation with author Michael Hastings (@mmhastings) plus a story on the “threatening” British travelers denied entry into the United States.  We’ll be back LIVE tomorrow!  

Click thru for a link to the Rolling Stone piece at the heart of McChrystal’s downfall and see “Women for Santorum” (wink, wink).  Use this post as today’s thread. 

Embedded author Michael Hastings (@mmhastings) on General McChrystal, who really ran the war in Afghanistan and his book The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America’s War in Afghanistan.   Check out Hastings’ article  “The Runaway General”  from Rolling Stone, June 2010.