Another strike against Petraeus is he inappropriately meddled in civilian affairs by harassing Terry Jones, who was planning to burn a Koran as a principled act of protest. Petraeus was way out of line there.
Today’s generals have become a rather PC lot.
You are thinking of General Demsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He made the phone call to Pasrtor Jones, “on his own”.
Maybe he should have doing military planning for rescues of ambassadors—you know, like what we pay him for.
Another perfumed prince.