“I’m a big fan of Dolly Parton – do you remember her song Jolene?” McChrystal replied, referring to the country star’s Grammy-nominated 1973 hit. “This poor wife says, ‘Jolene, please don’t take my man; don’t take him just because you can. And I think the world is starting to view us that way.”McChrystal’s commentary about what Goldberg dubbed Trump’s “Jolene doctrine” is bound to carry weight in many political circles. The retired general spent his entire career in the US army upon graduating from its West Point academy in 1976. McChrystal subsequently commanded US and Nato military alliance troops in Afghanistan for a little more than a year beginning in June 2009 during Barack Obama’s presidency.

Source: The Guardian March 14, 2026 18:26 UTC