Like many senior officers from the Rumsfeld era, General Pace was a master of telling his bosses what they wanted to hear. His overweaning obsequious behavior might have ingratiated him with Secretary Rumsfeld, but many of us in the Army thought he acted more like a cheerleader, telling politicians what they wanted to hear, rather than the real truth about the necessity for total committment to a war that must be won.
Reading between the lines, the days of the ass kissers are numbered, and the JCS ranks will be filled with warfighting professionals instead of toadies.