A prominent French General could face disciplinary action for stating in an interview that US President Barack Obama's policy in Afghanistan was a "half-way measure that isn't working" and that the "situation on the ground has never been worse". After the interview in the French newspaper Le Monde, dated 2 July, General Vincent Desportes, head of the College Interarmees de Defense, was called in on the same day by France's new armed forces chief of staff, Admiral Edouard Guillaud, for a dressing down. Guillaud later told a Paris radio station that Gen Desportes' comments had been "irresponsible".
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