Coming to Fox as a military analyst? Perhaps, but he’s a liberal who voted for Obama and had banned Fox News from viewing. Nevertheless.

“Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who was fired last week as the top U.S. general in the stalemated Afghanistan war, told the Army on Monday that he will retire.

Army spokesman Col. Tom Collins tells Fox News that McChrystal has informed the office that handles retirements for the Army, which is the General Officer Management Office, that he intends to retire.

The Army has not received McChrystal’s official paperwork. In that, he will include a date by which he would like to retire. Then he will go through a formal process leading to retirement.

In announcing McChrystal’s ouster on Wednesday, President Barack Obama praised his long Army career but said his intemperate remarks in a magazine article that appeared last week could not be abided.

McChrystal apologized for the remarks in Rolling Stone magazine and flew to Washington last week to resign as commanding general of the war.”

Once McChrystal retires he’ll be a huge pull on the speaking circuit as a media pundit. Whether he ends up on Fox News or another cable network is of little difference, his presence could be “distraction” for the one for sure.

Released from the control of the UCMJ McChrystal will be free comment on the war in Afghanistan and on the war on terror (still call it that here) in general (sorry pun). Of course he’ll write a book, or even – hrrmppmt, run for office?

Hurrrah.