You may be right.
In a recent article it was noted that some someone whose sayings get noted said it was a losing hand that Petraeus picked up to play.
However, Petraeus has the sheepskins and actual hands-on live experience that make his opinion the expert opinion in this matter.
I know of no reason to doubt his earnestness.
If he says there’s a chance unlikely though it may be, then he is prob’ly right.
You’re citing counter insurgency field manual that he wrote as evidence. This means you’re calling it a relatively authoritative work. Otherwise why would it matter what the field manual says?
In doing so you tacitly acknowledge the expertise of the folks responsible for the field manual.
Why should we take a generic formula with disclaimers from a text over the real world assessment of the expert who wrote the text?
Perhaps. He’s said that he thinks there’s a chance. I don’t know yet if he’s expounded.
I’m not actually privy to too much of his plans. I really don’t know how much of what he’s said about his plans.
But the point is he is the expert here. He’s not some trumped tool from a think-tank saying that Iraq is coming up roses and the Disney World will be opening sooner than later as we’ve come to expect from the Bush Admin. He’s the real deal.
Who is as authoritative of an expert? And what is his/her opinion on the matter?
Cause you can’t cite the guy’s work as evidence w/o acknowledging that his judgment in such matters in general is expert. Further, his knowledge of such matters in specific comes from actual experience.
If you ask us not to accept the judgment of Petraeus in this you should appeal to something or someone other than Petraeus.
According to the OP article, the thing that really makes the next six-months critical is that Petraeus will be the guy who calls it one way or another.
Actually, NOT according to the OP article, according to a different Guardian article on the same subject by the same author that I though was identical to the one in the OP, :smack: it mentions that:
“Many of Petraeus’s strongest supporters fear that his new assignment is a no-win mission,” said Sewall. If that proves to be the case, she noted, Petraeus has promised to say so by late summer, not just to Bush but in public to the American people through the medium of Congress.
quoted from here: Petraeus In The Field He Wrote the Book. Can He Follow It?
