[operation clinton cleanup]

Whats the big deal? The MSM takes the word of retired arm chair Generals over active duty troops 100% of the time.

[Dr. Frank fan]

Hmm, this is a weird criticism. Forget about whether the approach is working or not; let's criticize the type of people who suggested it to the President!

This must mean the surge is doing quite well; no one seems to have a real criticism of it.

[montag813]

The Pentagon itself is full of “armchair generals”. Very few of our military decision-makers have actual battlefield experience. They seem more interested in persecuting their own soldiers than actually winning this “war”.

[KingSnorky]

Here’s some armchair advice: how about not giving the world advance notice of all our war plans? Surprise is certainly no element in this war—which makes General Petraeus’ success thus far even more remarkable.

[xzins]

joining such prominent conservatives as John Bolton, David Frum and Michael Ledeen.

Personally, I think Scarborough's piece is a crock. Gen Petraeus is the acknowledged expert in counter-insurgency, and the surge is the product of his and others' accumulated knowledge on the subject. Not to say that Gen Keane isn't also expert, but to attribute it to neo-cons is silly.

As a matter of fact, Bolton is on record a couple months ago saying that he wasn't a supporter of the Iraq strategy in the first place. He wanted to go in, break things, change governments, warn that we'd IMMEDIATELY do it again if we weren't left alone, and then get out. I believed in that strategy at the beginning. But the President was the CINC and there was nothing unethical or illogical about wanting to rebuild Iraq. He deserved his shot. I admire his courage for taking it and sticking to his guns. The good Lord knows we must insist that we'll not allow any Mid-East minions to project power against the US.

Now I favor a backup Plan B that calls for the confederal equivalent of a tri-partite Iraq....divide and conquer.

[MNJohnnie]

Victory has a thousand fathers.

Curious how two strident arch Dincon Iraq critics like Frum and Ledeen are now suppose to be part of the group claiming credit for the Surge’s success.

Funny how NONE of these people ever wrote anything supporting their supposed Iraq strategy.

Curious how the ONLY source for this claim is the group itself. There is no independent verification of the claims.

I would take this claim with a very large grain of salt.