Reply #7: If Bush was still in charge [View All]

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. . . this appointment would be represented as what it is -- a way for Petraeus to control the most damning assessments of the military offensives that existed (and persisted) alongside all of the blather from the 'commanders on the ground' about 'success', 'progress', and 'victory'. In his view, control the message, control the politics -- politics being something that Petraeus is compelled to manipulate so that his dubious military enterprises broach no dissent that would dismantle them.

Keeping him in the military leadership was the first bad decision. This appointment is just an insult to anyone with any objection to the unbridled militarism over the last decade.