And this time it raises no rancor. General Petraeus to the CIA seems natural.
Not so, for military men, back when an American citizen who worked for the CIA revealed one of the neocons’ many secrets. The citizen revealed that the neocons were secretly spying on American citizens. A management shake-up at the CIA followed.
President George W. Bush, America’s Commander-In-Chief, looked to the military for a replacement. America’s President sits at the top of the military chain-of-command. He is the Commander-in- Chief.
The Commander-in-Chief picked from the ranks of the military for his new CIA head. And twenty-five democrats voted for his choice while many Americans were against the civilian to military shift. That was some time ago.
This transition to General Petraeus, however, seems natural. He is a warrior but he is also a man of honor.
When the neocons were claiming their surge(too little, too late) was the cause of Iraq’s quiet, General Petraeus and the United Nations gave some credit to “an enemy” whose 60,000 or so militia had called a ceasefire. Al-Sadr declared a ceasefire in Iraq. And it looks like the neocons “stole” Al-Sadr’s thunder.
While the Pandora’s box that became the CIA under the ideology prone(other human values suffered) neocons, that era is, hopefully, now over.
Tags: al-sadr, ceasefire, CIA, General Petraeus, man of honor, pandora's box, president bush, United Nations
