From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Monte Davis wrote:
> 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."
>

He sounds like UK Mil/FCO.

Course what they really needed (as was/is the joke) was the Foreign &
Colonial Office vs the more PC Foreign & Commonwealth Office as this
was a colonial war fought while having to maintain a pretense that it was
not & thus all std "tried & tested" colonial techniques
were rejected because.."this is not a colonial operation"....


> 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

He sounds like a good lad from a number of accounts. Like I say...let's
hope he's lucky.

Main thing will be if the Iraqi mil will take on Sadr & Badr or just Sadr.

Adam

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