I can’t believe petraeus is in lock step wit Hussein on this.
Just because someone is a good military strategist doesn’t exempt them from anti-semitism.
I’m not sure he’s anywhere on this, he answered a question in a Congressional hearing based on his request to include the West Bank and Gaza in his command rather than EUCOM. It’s the political sphere, which is out of his realm anyway. BTW, I know it’s a given that since he commanded the surge, he must a political conservative, he works for a liberal now, as he should.
It is shocking and very disappointing. There was no need for him to have included any such remarks, so it is obvious that he did so quite willingly. I have tried for years to figure out anti-Semitism and I have failed. I have come to see it simply as a great and dangerous moral void in those who subscribe to it.
Petraeus is not thinking beyond his theatre of operations.
Militarily, he is correct that anything that riles up the savages makes his job harder.
He could be talking about a cartoon or a full moon.