Quote Originally Posted by SteveMetz View Post
... I didn't read it as saying that Bush is setting Petreaus up to fail, but would be willing to pin failure on him should it occur.
There is just ONE man ("you know who") responsible for the IRAQ adventure. It is very cheap to try to blame sb else now for the -most probably bad- outcome of it, especially sb who was not envolved in the STRATEGIC decision to go to war. The "you know who" tries to reduce the problem into an OPERATIONAL one, while in fact it is a STRATEGIC one in the first place.

By the way, i like the term "counter-insurance". Is there already a doctrine out for that?

BRUZ