Person of the Year: GEN David Petraeus
Jan 6, 2008 In The News, Politics, War On Terror
Surprisingly, a news publication has recognized the work General David Petraeus has done in Iraq to help improve conditions and make it a better place for Iraqis to live, naming him Person of the Year.
Unsurprisingly, it was not a U.S.-based publication.
Michael Yon reprints the following from December 31st’s issue of the U.K.’s The Sunday Telegraph:
…the reason for picking Petraeus is simple. Iraq, whatever the current crises in Afghanistan and Pakistan, remains the West’s biggest foreign policy challenge of this decade, and if he can halt its slide into all-out anarchy, Gen Petraeus may save more than Iraqi lives.
A failed Iraq would not just be a second Vietnam, nor would it just be America’s problem.
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