Well respected in some circles
From the
New York Daily News:
Taliban endorses General Petraeus, say new US Afghanistan war chief 'not smarter' than McChrystal
It seems the evildoers were just biding their time to see how the Rolling Stone flap would play out. Now that President Obama has sacked his top war boss in Afghanistan, Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, and replaced him with Iraq surge hero Gen. David Petraeus, the Taliban has finally weighed in.
Their verdict? The new boss is the same as the old boss. And Petraeus is a wimp, they claimed Thursday.
"(Petraeus) is not smarter than McChrystal," Taliban spokesman Qari Muhammad Ahmed Yusuf said in a statement. "Also, his losing consciousness last week in an investigative hearing before the members of the U.S. Congress brought his physical competence and his courage into question."
Petraeus is probably brushing up on his Sun Tzu right now. You do not rise to a post like that if you are not whip smart. If he gets the support he needs, it will be an interesting summer for the terrorists...
Posted by DaveH at June 24, 2010 7:56 PM