EDITOR'S LETTER: "Are Things Getting Better?" by David Granger, Esquire, March 2007, p. 55.
The mag does this cool thing where they link your name in the masthead to comments in David's monthly letter. For the first time ever, my name got linked, for past efforts regarding Petraeus.
Here's the bit:
Last year, we wrote about Lieutenant General David Petraeus on two occasions. Tom Barnett [link] wrote about him in his story, "The Monks of War" (March 2006), about the next generation of the American military. Petraeus's charge at the time--after two tours in Iraq--was to analyze the military's conduct of the Iraq war and come up with a new blueprint for how the Army handles counterinsurgency and nation-building. We also wrote ...Petraeus is a leader; maybe he's a visionary. It may be that his approach to Iraq (increase security, and thus stability, so that infrastructure can be repaired and life can get start getting better--an approach Barnett has been advocating in these pages for nearly four years) will come too late. It may be that the new Democratic Congress will, for reasons of political advantage as much as statesmanship, prevent the president from allowing Petraeus to implement his strategy. But David Petraeus is a good and thoughtful man and I wish him luck.
Nice cite, nice sentiment.
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