It's Official

President Obama has accepted the resignation of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, and replaced him with U.S. Central Command chief Gen. David Petraeus. Speaking in the Rose Garden, the president stressed the need to uphold the civilian control of the military. Obama said no diversion must complicate the mission in Afghanistan. "We need to remember what this is all about. Our nation is at war," he said. This is a change in personnel but not in policy, the president stressed. Obama urged the Senate to swiftly confirm Petraeus for his new post.