One more very good reason not to vote for Baby Barry. He’d just throw it all away:
"The Iraqis aren’t yet confident enough to stand entirely on their own; al Qaeda’s savagery still imposes too much fear, while Iran is training terrorists next door. In counterinsurgency, the people must know they are protected. Gen. Petraeus has proven that intimidation can be defeated by placing American soldiers among the population."
Worth the read, from fav author Bing West.
Baldilocks does some sniping at Dick Cavett, etc., for complaining about Gen. Petraeus’s pyramid of ribbons (a third of them hidden by his lapel) that make his uniform look lopsided. Not a real man, Cavett, etc. Wimps, and so forth. Well, at the risk of being lumped with the girlie men, I also think all that chest candy looks ridiculous. Much as I admire the general–a modern Grant or Sherman, to be sure–I have to say that most of the stuff on his uniform is boilerplate that everyone has been awarded, such as his National Defense Service ribbon with two oak leaf clusters. It’s not personal. I would much prefer a high-ranking American officer pare his/her ribbons/badges down to the half dozen or so that really are distinctive. It would look a lot more serious; much less like a pretentious peacock.
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One man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist, as the famous relativist’s line goes. In this case the one man speaking of Saman Kareem Ahmad is U.S. Army General David Petraeus, and the other "man," so to speak, are the incompetent bureaucrats of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. Michael Totten explains.
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The argument has, by now, gone way beyond whether Democrat House Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called Generals Petraeus and Pace "incompetent." (Reid has admitted as much.) But the right-of-center bloggers lost me when they got all concerned about Reid saying it "in a time of war." Hell, when’s a better time for a politician to lean on a general or three? Lincoln fired several, as I recall. This is America. Generals ain’t saints.
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