{"id":22288,"date":"2011-02-15T21:48:04","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T01:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22288"},"modified":"2011-02-15T21:48:04","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T01:48:04","slug":"replacing-petraeus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22288","title":{"rendered":"Replacing Petraeus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DaveO sent us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2011\/02\/15\/report-petraeus-to-give-up-command-in-afghanistan-before-end-of-year\/\">HotAir<\/a> at the same time I was reading it at <a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/312112.php\">Ace of Spades<\/a>. The story comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/news\/\">The Times<\/a> (why do we have to hear this stuff from the foreign press these days?)<\/p>\n<p>Allahpundit quotes The Times;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>General David Petraeus, the most celebrated American soldier of his generation, is to leave his post as commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan. The Times can reveal that the Pentagon aims to replace General Petraeus, who was appointed less than eight months ago, by the end of the year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the speculates &#8220;If Obama\u2019s now in credit-seeking mode in Afghanistan, things must be going better than we think. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sez Ace; &#8220;So if this story is right &#8212; and here I&#8217;ll believe the MBM &#8212; Obama is getting rid of our most accomplished and successful general to prove that it&#8217;s Obama&#8217;s leadership that is critical, not Petraeus&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Allah goes on that he thinks Petraeus will replace that buffoon Mullen as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. I think that&#8217;s probably right. Obama needs Petraeus to stay on active duty to keep him out of politics next year, not that Petraeus will run, but he could be a kingmaker. Especially if the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf catch fire like it&#8217;s shaping up for the summer. <\/p>\n<p>And the good news is that Eikenberry, the dick, is gone this year, too. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DaveO sent us a link to HotAir at the same time I was reading it at &hellip; <a title=\"Replacing Petraeus\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22288\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Replacing Petraeus<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}