Those Who Can’t Do, Teach: Stanley McChrystal Takes Professor Job At Yale

What does a former U.S. General do after being fired/retiring from the military in response to controversial statements he made about his boss, who just happens to be the leader of the free world? Needless to say, it’s not the most desirable state of unemployment. Luckily for Stanley McChrystal, however, the Ivy League had a job opening that only a man with his employment history could fill.

Beginning this fall semester, McChrystal will be a senior fellow with the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, a brand new department at Yale University. As part of his duties, he will reportedly be teaching a seminar for students in the international relations master’s program that “will examine how dramatic changes in globalization have increased the complexity of modern leadership.” No word yet if his Rolling Stone interview will be on the reading list.

McChrystal, who Politico says was “considering a number of opportunities from a wide range of places” before settling on the Yale position, was quoted in a statement released by the university as saying, “I am extremely excited to be teaching at Yale and I look forward to sharing my experiences and insights as a career military officer.”

(Read: “Score! I have a job again! And I can make controversial statements about the war and pass them off as examples of ‘the complexity of modern leadership’ without pissing anyone off… Sweet!”)

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