When you realize something you cooked up is not working, how do you get out of the kitchen without taking the blame for the burned cornbread? Unless you have an imaginary friend to blame for your failure, the next best option is get the boss angry and then have him throw you out of the kitchen. That way you get to play the victim and pin your failure on someone else. (And coincidentally, prove your point about the boss being a boob.)
I'm not saying that's what happened here, but I'm sure Gen. McChrystal is familiar with old school transactional analysis and since there are so few thinkers left today (as opposed to reacters -- 'bots of both the Left and Right persuasion), a clever man could easily pull off this ploy with none of the Villagers noticing and few of the general population getting it either.
You might even find a high profile meat puppet. Who knows.
Gates advocated keeping McChrystal, source says - CNN.com: "Defense Secretary Robert Gates backed keeping Gen. Stanley McChrystal on the job because he was vital to the war effort in Afghanistan, but Gates was overruled, a senior Pentagon official told CNN's Barbara Starr..."
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