Posted on 06/24/2010 7:40:55 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
You know...when it's time to come after the SOCONS and Tea Partiers. ;^)
Well I hope Petraeus didn’t walk into a situation just to get Obama’s fat out of the fire. I’m not suggesting Patraeus would do that on purpose, but what if Obama fails to give him the support he needs? Obama doesn’t like meeting with generals. He doesn’t like having to hear what they need or want to say. What if Obama cuts the legs out from under Patraeus? Does he have any options, other than resigning?
Petraeus did not do the assessment, nor did he issue the rules for Afghanistan. He wrote the book on counterinsurgency in Iraq and McChrystal tried to do in Afghanistan what Petraeus had already done. He tried to one up Petraeus without considering the differences between Iraq and Afghanistan or their people.
This is McChrystal’s game. He tried to outshine and out Petraeus Petraeus. He blew it. Big time.
Yah, right. I think that most of the politically correct rules of engagement crap that is currently in place for both Iraq as well as Afghanistan were initiated by the capitulating, panderer-in-chief (Islam is a religion of peace) GW Bush, who blessed any & all rules of engagement by the politically correct weenies in the Dept of Defense. I doubt that Petraeus will remove any rules of engagement, period.
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