[Puzzleman]

Petraeus is the most brilliant, knowledgeable, and disciplined man to serve our nation in decades. The “scandal” that the media used to smear him consisted of his sharing one secure email with his mistress – a mistress had a security clearance. If the same level of scrutiny were applied to all applicants for service, our nation’s halls of power would suddenly be very silent.

[Gaffer]

NTK. We have different opinions. Every time one of these people get their hands slapped, the rest of those in the security world get the repercussions in the “additional checks and measures” that ensue from them.

[Spacetrucker]

“Most disciplined”? I beg to differ ... Paula Broadwell comes to mind...

[rollo tomasi]

The insurgency worked (Overwhelming force, duh), COIN did not hence the continued struggle after the surge and cluster *f after we left. Did not work in Afghan as well.

Islamic factions have been playing the West for centuries since the Crusades. Don't be enamored by Petraeus' strategy of playing factions against each other. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" and all that Islamic crap runs very deep.

Islam is a counter-hegemonic force regardless of what sect or tribe you deal with and the only thing they respond to is a superior force/weaponry/brute force.

As for SoS, why the hell would you appoint a man who fumbled secret information to his side piece. Also his personnel politics rival Colin Powell so have fun with this guy I guess. "The more things change, the more they stay the same..."

[FreeAtlanta]

There were a lot of reasons the Democrats wanted to ruin Gen. Petraus. Remember the nasty Betrayous attack when he was winning in Iraq?

[onona]

heh heh heh....."disciplined"

heh heh heh

[Georgia Girl 2]

No Betrayus was and is another globalist. He and astronaut Mark Kelly just announced that they have teamed up to promote gun control. The guy got caught sharing top secret info with his mistress. Yeh let’s give him a high level cabinet position. Not!