wGraves:
Make General David Petraeus a five-star. He deserves to be up there with Eisenhower, Bradley, and McArthur. In eight years, he can run for President. What these idiots can’t stand is that we’re winning.
Your worship is duly noted.
However, Petraus is a newly promoted 4-star managing a chickenshit little conflict where we have killed about 3,000 enemy since he took over and lost under 500. He is doing nothing on the scale of WWII, WWI, the Civil War, even Korea or Vietnam.
Eisenhower managed 11 million men at arms and lost 200,000 while his forces took 2,5 million enemy soldier and civilian lives. Same deal with Marshall, Bradley, McArthur, General Sir William Slim, Montgomery, Zhukov..
As good as Petreaus is in managing a small insurgency mess Bush, Bremer, and the Neocons blundered into….giving him 5 stars would be about as appropriate as giving John Kerry a belated Medal of Honor…and Petraeus would be the 1st to tell clueless worshippers it was so.
There will be no “win”, BTW. The best we can get is a “draw” where ingrate Shiites in control of Iraq tell Americans “thanks for nothing”, but the country somehow remains stable thanks to Petraeus’s good counterinsurgency work.
The only “victory” we will have for 1 1/2 trillion pissed away is we helped AQ inflict a strategic defeat on itself in Iraq.
The war in Afghanistan is not going to be won, as well, because the lawless, primitive people there with the most reactionary form of Islam outide Wahabbism are incapable of modern democracy, modernization itself. All we have is our pet President Karzai and a little Potemkin village in Kabul kept alive by foreing blood and money – the rest of the country is Warlords or Taliban back in charge.
