Taking The Measure of Stanley McChrystal  (AP Photo/Manuel Balce
Ceneta, File) The day after President Obama announced his Afghan
war plan, General Stanley McChrystal flew around Afghanistan to
reach his most important audience - the men and women who have
to carry out his strategy.  "We are not going to nation-build,"
he told them. "What we are going to do is allow a nation to
build." There's no transcript. There was no written speech. He
spoke to four groups of troops around the country for an hour-
plus each, completely off the cuff. And they were rapt.  When
they asked him what was going to be different, he told them that
for the first time, they were going to get the manpower and the
resources to do the job of protecting Afghans and training their
security forces to do it for themselves. The strategy hadn't
changed from when he took command - but now, he said, the
president has given him what he needs to carry it out.  He'll
answer that same question on Capitol Hill this week, sitting
behind a long table