Enjoyed the article and the comments. Looks like General Petraeus would thread all seven needles without trying too hard. If Sarah Palin throws her support behind his candidacy, he would be a mighty contender. Is he interested? who knows?
He certainly prepared himself well for a the challenge of turnings things around in Iraq when he saw it. First he wrote the book, next he got himself tasked to turn it into practice! Before that, he had already done a bang job of running the difficult city of Mosul.
Someone who can make a plan in the first place, and execute it once in power, Wow! In 2012 it may no longer be about “Yes we can!”; It might be more about “let’s get this straight!”.





