I'm not sure that you could, at a stretch, call the way General Petraeus
averts his gaze from the admonishing Congressmen as shame; it wouldn't be a stretch to call it disrespectful. At the very least, he's focused solely on his own narrative, and while they speak he just takes some sort of notes, figuring like an accountant or maybe a defense attorney.
But what he's not doing is paying attention. He's listening, but he's
not listening. He's preparing.
It's so overdetermined as to be a Strangelovian parody of itself.
This man must sell this war. He's only the latest, and I would love if he turns out to be the last.
But I so doubt it.
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And so it goes - Catch 22? Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld & friends created the horror: if we stay, more die or are terribly injured, more destruction (little infrastructure left to destroy), more hate for the US; if we leave, all out of control? What? If any analogy to Vietnam, then some years later Iraq will be a very big, safe tourist destination.
DRD
I imagine the description of the job offered by Bush to Gen. Petraitor went something like this... "I need a man who will tell the American people and the spineless war critics in the government that we can and will win in Iraq. Do you think you can do that, Davey? Can you sell them on our plan -- our vision -- regardless of the reality? Regardless of the facts?" And Petraitor agreed...
My guess is the endgame is partition, de facto or enforced. (Biden right about this a long ways ahead of everyone.)
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