Op-Ed Columnist - The 36 Hours That Shook Washington - NYTimes.com An excellent article on the firing of the most arrogant SOB in the Military leadership of the afgan war, a man that does not even believein the strategy that he suposedly created. THE moment he pulled the trigger, there was near-universal agreement that President Obama had done the inevitable thing, the right thing and, best of all, the bold thing. But before we get carried away with relief and elation, let’s not forget what we saw in the tense 36 hours that fell between late Monday night, when word spread of Rolling Stone’s blockbuster article , and high noon Wednesday, when Obama MacArthured his general . That frenzied interlude revealed much about the state of Washington, the Afghanistan war and the Obama presidency — little of it cheering and none of it resolved by the ingenious replacement of Gen. Stanley McChrystal with Gen. David Petraeus, the only militarily and politically bullet-proof alternative....