(Hat-tip Nico Pitney)
The latest issue of American Conservative magazine features a cover story by Andrew Bacevich blasting the brave and noble General Petraeus as a "sycophant soldier":

In common parlance, the phrase "political general" is an epithet, the inverse of the warrior or frontline soldier. In any serious war, with big issues at stake, to assign command to a political general is to court disaster... [...]

David Petraeus is a political general. Yet in presenting his recent assessment of the Iraq War and in describing the "way forward," Petraeus demonstrated that he is a political general of the worst kind - one who indulges in the politics of accommodation that is Washington's bread and butter but has thereby deferred a far more urgent political imperative, namely, bringing our military policies into harmony with our political purposes.

Bacevich, a retired Army colonel, has been described as "one of the most articulate leading thinkers among military-policy dissident conservatives who have exposed the inanity of this war and the damage it has done." In May, his 27-year-old son was killed on duty by an IED explosive in Iraq.

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Where's the outrage on the right against this obviously "phony soldier" (and the so-called "conservative" magazine that published this anti-American, troop-hating tripe)?

Tags: iraq, petraeus, phony soldiers, republican hypocrisy, right-wing hate radio
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