It should come as no surprise that President Obama has accepted Gen. Stanley McChrystal's resignation. McChrystal should have been replaced last year when he requested 60,000 to 80,000 additional troops and wanted an open-ended commitment to stay in Afghanistan. (No surprise, either, that a military man wants to have more war.) Instead he was given 30,000 additional troops and a deadline of July 2011. Then the backstabbing of the current administration began. McChrystal's counterinsurgency strategy has failed. Perhaps the man should have slept a few more hours a night and eaten more than once a day so he would have been better able to deal with the military problems. The war has already cost us thousands of casualties and a trillion dollars, and continues to drain our country of $9 billion a month. McChrystal also should have been canned after his role in white-washing the friendly-fire death of Cpl. Pat Tillman in 2004. His fabrications should have been a red flag for all who thought he was an upright, respectable leader. How can you perpetuate fabrications to families and your government and be called respectable? McChrystal was given second and third chances, and he blew them. Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who is the leader of a totally corrupt government, has threatened to go over to the side of the Taliban. I say let him go. I am tired of our billions of dollars going into his pocket and the pockets of his family and military and government leaders. Save us all some money and run -- don't walk -- and get us out of Afghanistan. DARLENE THYEN, PAYNESVILLE, MINN.

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McChrystal gets canned, not because of a policy difference like that of Gen. Douglas MacArthur and President Harry S. Truman during the Korean War, but because of a lack of respect for a community-organizer president and his thin skin. Americans will have the chance to relieve President Obama of his command down the road due to a scorecard that includes out-of-control spending, record unemployment, a health care overhaul nobody wanted, Wall Street bailouts, ineffective stimulus programs, being asleep at the wheel on the BP disaster, and on and on ... NEIL ANDERSON, RICHFIELD

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To President Obama and the generals: Either bring the troops home or place the entire nation on a war footing and win the war. Set a speed limit of 55 miles per hour. Increase the tax on gas. Put war factories on three shifts. Concentrate on one front at a time. I thought only the Russians fought losing wars for 10 years. STEVE ADKINS, BURNSVILLE