Ann Petraeus served well in theater. Who do we want to direct the CIA, another appointee on the order of Leon Panetta? (Leon is inept to the x.)
I don’t want Patraeus to step down. He’s a good man with in-theater experience. He’s a guy that turned Iraq around. He’s a guy that knows what the needs of our military are. He’s the right guy to make decisions that will actually help our people in the field. Imagine a guy like Panetta in there, fighting our men all the way.
He’s gutless?
Ann, what happens if we have a CIA Director actively seek to take the president down? The next time we get a Republican in the White House, the Left will constantly try to disrupt the CIA Director, and force him to focus on their demands for months at a time.
We have got to try to keep this position as non-political as possible. And while you and I would see his actions a patriotic, a very large segment of the populace wouldn’t, and would want pay-back in short order.
I know what you and I might like to see, but there are times when what we would like to see can’t be achieved without doing our own cause damage.
Clinton was lying his posterior off during his presidency. We called him on it. And then Bush was under attack for lying his posterior off constantly. And he wasn’t.
I don’t want to subject the CIA director’s position to the same type of thing.
What you describe here and what Petraeus is actually doing are two very different things.
Nobody is asking that he try to bring down the sitting president just merely tell the truth as to what he knows.
His job description does not include lying to cover the Presidents crimes.
Petraeus developed the COIN strategy and the rules of engagement in place in Afghanistan.
See the blog of John Bernard, “Let them Fight or Bring them Home.”
http://letthemfight.blogspot.com/
and the Rules of Engagement facebook page.
http://www.facebook.com/RoE.USMilitary