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[[File:Afg-2009.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Obama plan to add 30,000 troops in early 2010]]
[[File:Afg-2009.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Obama plan to add 30,000 troops in early 2010]]
Before McChrystal's appointment to ISAF in June 2009, command was held by Gen. David D. McKiernan, who was forced out by the Obama Administration, which demanded a new look at policy options.
Before McChrystal's appointment to ISAF in June 2009, command was held by Gen. David D. McKiernan, who was forced out by the Obama Administration, which demanded a new look at policy options.
==Defeat Disinfo==
[[File:Defeat-Disinfo.jpg|right|300px|thumb|McCrystal ran a Democrat funded operation against President Trump during the 2020 presidential election.]]
:{{See also|Biden Putsch}}
Isaac Stanley-Becker of ''[[Washington Post]]'' wrote in May 2020,<ref>https://www.stripes.com/news/us/initiative-seeks-to-challenge-trump-s-online-megaphone-1.628186</ref>
{{quotebox|A new Democratic-aligned political action committee advised by retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the former head of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, is planning to deploy technology originally developed to counter Islamic State propaganda in service of a domestic political goal – to combat online efforts to promote President Donald Trump's handling of the [[coronavirus]] pandemic.
The group, [[Defeat Disinfo]], will use [[artificial intelligence]] and network analysis to map discussion of the president's claims on social media. It will seek to intervene by identifying the most popular counter-narratives and boosting them through a network of more than 3.4 million influencers across the country – in some cases paying users with large followings to take sides against the president.
The initiative reflects fears within the Democratic Party that Trump's unwavering digital army may help sustain him through the [[pandemic]], as it has through past controversies...The initiative is run by Curtis Hougland, whose received initial funding for the technology from [[DARPA]], the Pentagon's research arm, as part of an effort to combat extremism overseas. He insists Democrats are ill-prepared for the looming battle over information and attention, which is bound to play an outsize role in November.}}
McChrystal said his interest in the PAC is about ensuring the accuracy of information leading up to the election, even if it involves chasing viral attention with emotional appeals and other tactics rewarded by online clicks.
"Everyone wishes the Pandora's box was closed and none of this existed, but it does," McChrystal said in an interview.
His ambivalence is shared by large parts of the [[Democratic Party]], which recoiled at an effort, brought to light after the [[2018 Midterm elections]], to use Russian-inspired tactics, including the creation of fake accounts, to sway the 2017 Senate election in [[Alabama]] against [[Roy Moore]].
==2009 Report==
==2009 Report==