Comments on: Petraeus Replacing Casey, Fallon Replacing Abizaid

By: The Glittering Eye » Blog Archive » Puzzling

The Glittering Eye » Blog Archive » Puzzling — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 20:00:21 +0000

[...] James Joyner finds the appointment as puzzling as I do: My sense of what the CENTCOM job should be was shaped by Norman Schwartzkopf in Desert Storm. Perhaps what we need now, though, is more akin to Dwight Eisenhower’s role in World War II. [...]

By: charles austin

charles austin — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 19:14:06 +0000

So General Abizaid and General Casey are not professionals according to Juan Cole. Perhaps the word professional means something different to partisan hacks masquerading as academics than to the rest of us.

By: Soccer Dad

Soccer Dad — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 18:39:19 +0000

Changing of the guard in iraq...

via memeorandum Bush to Name a New General to Oversee Iraq President Bush has decided to name Lt. Gen. David H. Petraeus as the top American military commander in Iraq, part of a broad revamping of the military team that will carry out the administrati...

By: LJD

LJD — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:00:21 +0000

It will be interesting to watch these all-stars try to bring Iraq in line. At least more palatable than those in this country who will only find defeat in all of their (potential) sucesses.
I don't imagine they would be given a fair chance by some, even if they were J.C. himself. I would be interested to hear, from those of that mindset, what the alternatives are. Because an immediate and complete pullout is just not a rational answer.

By: legion

legion — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:52:44 +0000

The choice of a former Navy pilot to head CENTCOM is something of a head scratcher, although mostly because it has always been considered a ground command.

Ah, but it makes perfect sense if you want to attack Iran and only have the resources to do it from sea-based battle groups...