frankly, larry, you need more of an eisenhower commander than a patton commander. you have to pull the allies and diplomats together and achieve the objectives for us. >> larry: let me get a break and come right back. general mcchrystal's apology is next. will it get him off the hook? stay with us. i got into one of the best schools in the country! [ both screaming ] i got into one of the most expensive schools in the country! [ male announcer ] when stress gives you heartburn with headache... alka-seltzer gives you relief fast. [ low male ] plop, plop. [ high male ] fizz, fizz. climate protection. challenges as vast as the space race a generation ago. and vital to global security. to reach this destination, our engineers are exploring every possibility. from energy efficiency to climate monitoring. securing our nations clean energy future is all a question of how. and it is the how that will make all the difference. >> larry: general mcchrystal has issued an apology and it says in part, throughout my career, i have lived by the principles of personal honor and pro

general patton survived saying pretty outlandish things to the press as well. presence is there for good officers to continue. i don't want to defend mccrystal's bad actions. what i'm here to say is that the president has to consider what's best for his strategy. let me be painfully clear here. our center is not for -- break break if you're going to go with the strategy the way it is, you probably have to pick the very best guy who has the best shot of making it work. general mccrystal was part of the review process, which established it last year and from all accounts he has been able to really bring back a lot of internal focus within the forces in afghanistan. yes, he's riles some of the state department folks. that's not news. i think playing it out in front of the press is very bad. if i survived i would fire my staff involved in saying those outlandish things. >> they're the ones most quoted. >> yes. >> one of the bombshells in the "rolling stones" article out lines the first meeting. an adviser to mccrystal says it was a ten-minute photo-op. obama didn't

. >> larry: ari, is this comparable to mcclellan in the civil war, patton in world war ii?omparable? >> no, i don't think so, especially with macarthur and truman because that was a real policy difference. here you have the same support for counterinsurgency. the point just made is the big point. can we win in afghanistan? can we win when the president says the withdrawal will start in july 2011? or do we need to leave it more open ended? that's a debate to come. i was pleased to see the president's speech today. he talked about defeating al qaeda. he said we are a nation at war. the question is, will he back up his military, as that deadline gets closer, and remain muscular if he's under a lot of pressure in his own party not to be that way. >> larry: michael, is general mcchrystal confident about an eventual victory there? >> general mcchrystal recently called his sort of centerpiece operation in marjah a bleezing ulcer so that doesn't reflect the sort of confidence one would expect from the commanding general. so -- as you look at his other -- the other public comments h

you mentioned general patton and macarthur, and this morning when i discussed this with my colleagues, i referred to these two generals who were also fairly blunt at times in their languagg. but maybe these are different times. host: let us move on to u.s.- russia relationships and what hungary's view is. right now there seems to be a spirit of economic cooperation. president medvedev was yesterday in silicon valley and was meeting with leaders there in business. bringing home some new contracts. it seems like the thaw is on economically. the new start trader dtv. what is your country's you? guest: to put it briefly, we welcome it. for us it is important that russia be engaged. and we welcome also this recent policy of the new administration. in fact, we are doing the same. we also have very fundamental economic interests with russia. we have very important trade. of course, energy supplies, a key issue for us. and despite the fact that we used to have some misunderstandings or issues with the russians, now i think we both realize -- and i am speaking about russia and hungary -- that

at that time, jack abramoff, grover norquist and they are considered patton freaks and the or psychoticwhere communists were in the government. but now it has switched from russia to obama query have seen3 socialist marxist. you have beck on television calling him a marxist and a socialist. then i need to correct, is actually a fascist. maybe something else. but it is the end of the world as we know it. what it has led to part is coming joining what we call sore loser voters. conservatives who are upset because they lost the election. for the first time in history, you have a news outlets that helped make and opposition party to a newly elected president which i don't believe that that happened before. what proceeds that is in the '90s, we had all of the black helicopter groups which are white supremacists and your patriot movement, the militia movement. but what happens is they were more in the shadows. but because of fox news and the tea party, they're able to expose themseeves and they get transmitted into the mainstream. all the sudden, there is a wreck sanchez interweaving emission