Letters to the Editor
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If the shoe fits...
It's one thing for a someone to be political within their organization. Mid-level managers and executives need political skills to thrive in any corporation. A general has to be political in his position.
It is another thing to be a partisan political hack, a water carrier for the political objectives of a political party - the GOP in this case. Petraeus is playing a political hack, selling a message that is obviously narrow, selective, and outright deceptive. It leaves FALSE impressions. It's dishonest. Not what I want a top soldier to be doing.
In any case, if a general stoops to that level of political hackery, then he opens himself up to every form of political response. Betray-us is a political sound-bite in response to a white house political ploy, a response to Petraeus the politician, not to Petraeus the soldier.