Los Angeles County has selected the McChrystal Group to “conduct an independent review of the evacuation policies and emergency alert notification systems utilized by the County and its partners in responding to the Palisades and Eaton Fires.”

The group “is led by retired four-star General Stanley McChrystal, former leader of the U.S. military’s Joint Special Operations Command, and has extensive experience with disaster response reviews, including an ongoing review concerning the North Carolina hurricane.” Sounds good, but the county supervisors left out a few details.

In 2010, President Barack Obama fired Gen. McChrystal for making critical comments about administration officials, including Vice President Joe Biden, whom the general pretended not to know. The general was the commander of multinational forces in Afghanistan — a place Americans rightly believe the United States should not have been engaged in the first place.

Katy Grimes of the California Globe wonders what the general’s organization is doing in Los Angeles County. At taxpayer expense, McChrystal will review evacuation policies and emergency alert........

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