From: Monte Davis 

Ad  wrote:

>The new US commander there, he told me, Gen David Petraeus "is quite
>unusual among all American generals".

In May 2004 here, I cited Rick Atkinson's then-just-published "In the
Company of Soldiers," about being embedded with the 101st on the way
to Baghdad in 2003 : Petraeus saying/asking repeatedly, with a deliberate
edge: "Tell me how this ends."

Most of the cheery answers have evaporated. I suspect the only one to
survive is what I thought in 2002 it would be:

"In tears."

Monte Davis
http://montedavis.livejournal.com

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