Escalation Architect (Kagan) Bemoans Label Of ‘Armchair General,’ Claims Iraqi Deaths Are ‘Way Down’

[Purveyor]

This weekend on Washington D.C. ABC affiliate’s Capital Sunday, Center for American Progress Iraq analyst Brian Katulis debated American Enterprise Institute’s military analyst — and Iraq escalation architect — Fred Kagan.

“Right now, Iraq is in civil war. It’s in fact in multiple civil wars,” Katulis said. “And I don’t think that these military tactics that these armchair generals and the academics offer up fundamentally address the core issue — that Iraqis are in a vicious struggle for power.”

Taking issue with Katulis’ description of him as an “armchair general,” Kagan complained that “you only get called an armchair general when you actually advocate doing anything.” Speaking as an armchair general, Kagan went on to claim “sectarian killings are way down,” despite an AP report that Iraqi deaths have doubled so far this year.

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http://thinkprogress.org/2007/08/26/katulis-kagan/

[Kagemusha]

1. Way down from what, when it wasn't 130 degrees earlier this year?

Don't worry, they'll come back up again. Soon.

[ck4829]

2. "you only get called an armchair general when you actually advocate doing anything"

What's that even mean?