Posted on 12/22/2007 5:37:27 AM PST by rhema
I bet they didn't do that in 1994 when Newt and the Replublicans took over Congress for the first time in a long while.
Time's agenda isn't hidden very well.
Maybe Petraeus will pull an Eisenhower and run for POTUS.
We could sure use another IKE right now!
Semper Fi,
Kelly
Vlad Putin as MOTY - I can imagine Henry Luce is at 10,000 RPM.
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Time’s perverts pick another pervert as “man of the year.”
I understand it was tough call over "We" and "They".
God bless our brave troops, President Bush, General Petraeus and his staff.
God bless America and Amen to VICTORY.
There weren't too many arm-chairs for the troops out there who were pushing for the current strategy for years. There's ample evidence that Sec. Rumsfeld was quite clearly told what we were facing and willfully chose to ignore it--recall when he changed the wording of Gen. Pace to try to deny there was any counterinsurgency?
But even after the Administration's period of counterinsurgency denial ended, the officers I spoke with personally often pointed to books that were available to those with armchairs. It's not like this is the first counterinsurgency ever fought, and the Brits especially have had lots to say on the matter. In fact, we used to base our counterinsurgency operations on the Malayan experience of the British. They have known quite well that you can't just hit an area and then move on to another without maintaining a sufficient presence in subdued areas; the insurgents just melt away and come back (Tal Afar is a prime example).
I am also quite aware that the rate of deaths has been a lot lower than in hot battles (and our wonderful battlefield medical folks have turned many would-be deaths into amputations and recoveries). I've visited the wounded at WRAMC and elsewhere, and the dead at Arlington, and I honor them all...but that doesn't mean I don't wish there were fewer--and I'm sure that President Bush feels the same. Re-read my comments, and you will find that I am giving him praise both for loyalty and for finally giving in and listening to those in the field.
Selecting General Petraeus--a man whose actions had varied somewhat from Sen. Rumsfeld's plan but yielded results--was the act of a man who was willing to change tactics to achieve a victory for America. The humor and irony is that the Left couldn't slam Pres. Bush on his change of direction itself (Headline: "Bush admits his mistakes!"), as the surge came along as part of the Gen. Petraeus package and they had to fight against that! :-)
Link?
Not sure what you are asking for link to... I think that it's all pretty much accepted information. What are you questioning...?
“Time is written by a bunch of morons.”
My sober, considered opinion is that they are in the service of Evil. Literally, in the most medieval sense.
There needs to be more alternatives to Time and Newsweek.
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