If personnel is policy, President Bush couldn't have done better than the new jobs he has given Gens
National Review, May 19, 2008
If personnel is policy, President Bush couldn't have done better than the new jobs he has given Gens. David Petraeus and Ray Odierno. Petraeus will be the next head of CENTCOM, with responsibility for the entire Middle East, and Odierno, who has been Petraeus's second-in-command, will take over in Iraq.
The nation's foremost counterinsurgent, Petraeus is ideally suited to oversee the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Odierno, meanwhile, has been almost as central to the successes of the surge in Iraq as Petraeus. Both men are committed to prevailing in Iraq and will ensure that the new president gets an unvarnished assessment of the risks of a rapid withdrawal. Well done.
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