POST: If the surge is working, why are we still losing?
Interesting and realistic critique from Mullen gives me hope this guy learns fast.
You go back a bit on both Mullen and Fallon and they were easily described as Old School dinosaurs, but both have evolved dramatically since 9/11 and see the big picture far better than most.
The question for now, I guess, is, does the Petraeus-Fallon-Mullen trio overcome the neocon camp still resident under Cheney? If not, can they at least temporize things until Bush is out of power?
I would go farther than MountainRunner--and cynically so--to say Bush's surge (not Petraeus') was always about buying just enough internal security to facilitate drawdown and redirection on Iran.
Complicating that is the Intell Community's push to raise awareness on al-Qaida's rising stronghold in NW Pakistan. That development might just save Iran's mullahs from a regime-strengthening American military attack, which is ironic to both al-Qaida and the Shiite theocracy.
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Within the Navy you would be hard put to find someone who would say that Fallon and Mullen are "alike". They are very different in their abilities and leadership styles.
Here is what bothers me-if we made so many mistakes for so long-at such a great cost-why are not the authors of those mistakes being held to account?
Posted by SKippy-san | August 2, 2007 6:23 PM