Obama and McChrystal's Quick Rendezvous

A last-minute meeting between President Obama and General Stanley McChrystal, who is asking for as many as 40,000 additional troops in Afghanistan, took place aboard Air Force One in Copenhagen on Friday morning, while Obama was in town boosting Chicago's bid for the 2016 Olympics. The unscheduled meeting came on the heels of two weeks of aggressive public campaigning during which McChrystal warned that not agreeing to his request would be ill-advised. "You have to navigate from where you are, not from where you wish to be," McChrystal said in response to those who support a minimized U.S. presence. A decision has yet to be announced, but Obama’s camp made it clear that the talk was not to scold McChrystal’s campaigning, but rather another step in the review process: "The president said that McChrystal understands that he put together an assessment, and he expects and wants people to ask him questions about that assessment so that we can get the right strategy,” said press secretary Robert Gibbs.