I Couldn't Agree More
Gen. Petraeus is The Sunday Telegraph's Person of the Year.
But the reason for picking Petraeus is simple. Iraq, whatever the current crises in Afghanistan and Pakistan, remains the West's biggest foreign policy challenge of this decade, and if he can halt its slide into all-out anarchy, Gen Petraeus may save more than Iraqi lives.
A failed Iraq would not just be a second Vietnam, nor would it just be America's problem.
It would be a symbolic victory for al-Qaeda, a safe haven for jihadists to plot future September 11s and July 7s, and a battleground for a Shia-Sunni struggle that could draw in the entire Middle East. Our future peace and prosperity depend, in part, on fixing this mess. And, a year ago, few had much hope.
Exactly right.
Posted by Rosemary on
12.30.2007
R.I.P. Steven Malcolm Anderson
Minion
of the Week
Unlike previous military Generals who did their "time" in Iraq and retired (although, thankfully that idiot Tommy Franks retired) we need Gen Petraeus to see this thing through. I'm told he has future political ambitions as well....can you say President Petraeus?
I wonder if another 5,000 dead American soldiers and another half-million dead Iraqis will help deny al-Qaeda another symbolic victory? Either way, it won’t hurt their recruiting or motivation one goddamn bit.