horse of george

Odd - I was thinking just this morning "what ever happened to Petraeus?". Now of course I know he's heading the CIA - but after being a near daily presence in the conversation you don't hear squat from or about him anymore - and then I read that an authorized biography is coming out soon and in leaked excerpts it's revealed he seriously considered resigning when Obama set the deadline for [or maybe that was actually adhered to the deadline for] an 'early' withdrawal from Afghanistan. It reminded me of something I recently read in Small Wars Journal by another retired general who also had some unkind thoughts concerning Obama he felt compelled to share - and I remember thinking that I bet if you talked off the record with the top fifty officers in the US military that one would hear many unkind thoughts expressed - yet liberals like to think that foreign policy is the one unqualified success of Obama's first term. Odd indeed.