Barack Obama, the US president, has dismissed General Stanley McChrystal, the US and Nato commander in Afghanistan, over disparaging comments about the president's staff in a Rolling Stone magazine interview.<br /><br />Obama said he would not tolerate any act that could undermine civilian control of the US military.<br /><br />The president was quick, however, to say that the counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan would continue -- though without its chief architect.<br /><br />Afghan officials expressed disappointment over McChrystal's dismissal, but Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, said he accepted the decision.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Nick Spicer reports. (June 24, 2010)
