The New York Times writes up the general’s speech under the headline “McChrystal Rejects Lower Afghan Aims.” The lede: “The top military commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, rejected calls for scaling down military objectives there on Thursday and said Washington did not have unlimited time to settle on a new strategy to pursue the eight-year-old war.” Everyone should take the time to listen to the speech, which took place the London think-tank IISS. You can get the audio here. As one Afghanistan policy insider emails, “This is what a serious leader sounds like.”