If you read the Original "Runaway General" in Rolling Stone (and saw an ancient frat boy movie)
June 23, 2010
General McChrystals Twitters
By GAIL COLLINS
Get short, timely messages from Gen. Stanley McChrystal on Twitter:
DAY 1
In Paris with my Kabul posse Bluto, Otter, Boon, Pinto, Flounder. Plus some newbie. Guys call him Scribbles.
Suites getting pretty crowded. Good thing I sleep standing up.
Three hours of shuteye and back to work. Have to read every report check the details! Like I told Scribbles. The little fellows a fan.

DAY 2
Stuck going to dinner w/ some damned French minister. Gang riding me big. Bluto says they will make me eat snails. Hell of a funny guy, Bluto.
Restaurant ultra-Gucci. No Bud Light Lime. Damn. Wish I was on foot patrol in Kandahar.

Minister yammering diplomatic bull. Id rather have my ass kicked by a roomful of people. As if they could. LOL
Still talking. Better at this diplomatic stuff than I used to be. Learned a lot in last few years. Like, dont mention mission failure.
Whoops. Mentioned mission failure. Dont think the minister noticed.
Steak comes covered in some goop. Miss my gruel.
Dinner's over. Ran 12 miles.
DAY 3
Missus is here! Hell of a surprise. Turns out its our 33rd wedding anniversary.
Wife wants the gang out of the hotel room. Women. Cant live with them, cant live without them for more than 11 months at a time.
Time for anniversary dinner. Does this country never stop eating?
Night starts on a bad note McDonalds wont let Pinto and Otter bring in the Tequiza. Damn. Wanted to show Missus a good time.

Comeback kids found a bar next to the hotel. Wiped the Gucci drink specials off the chalkboard and we are diagramming up a storm.

Team America is partying! Blutos doing his impression of Joe Biden. Scribbles taped whole thing get ready for laughs when we get home.
DAY 4
Spent the morning e-mailing back and forth with Kabul. They cant get Karzai to come out of his room again.
Hanging out at a cafe. Were shooting the breeze about the dingbat diplomatic corps. Except Hillary.
Pinto reminds me how intimidated Obama looked around the generals. Yeah, but the guy really trusts my judgment.

Found Scribbles sitting in potted plant next to our table. Kid must like nature.
DAY 5
Said goodbye to the Missus. Great gal. Cant wait to see her again once the war is over.
Berlins the next stop, but that damn Iceland volcano has everything grounded. Cant believe Europeans are afraid to fly in a little ash.
Got another e-mail from Holbrooke.

Bluto does his riff about Holbrooke as a crippled impala & Im the lion. Scribbles really digging it.
Great news weve got a bus to take us to Berlin. Nothing but Team America and a luggage rack crammed with Bud Light Lime.
Scribbles wants to come, too. Told him only if he buys the next two cases.
ROAD TRIP!!!!