Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100705:23:41:00
Mcchrystal is to petraeus as george patton was to dwight eisenhower. general mcchrystal's a great warrior general, but they tried to make him into a diplomat and it didn't work. i think what you've got now is the entire administration, military and civilians at the highest command authority saying, this is the direction we're going, and we'll see how it works out. >> wow, ed, would you agree with rich that this is potentially a plus for obama to place mcchrystal with petraeus now? >> i think mcchrystal is a great general and i wouldn't have replaced him, but that's irrelevant. i'm not the comm...