Here is “The Telegraph’s” Article on on him…
General Petraeus: man with a message of hope

I bet it was in the bag until Time got scooped by Newsweek when they published AJ’s “Special Guest Commentary” which bravely condemned the “Arrogant Unilateralism” of America. (http://www.newsweek.com/id/77945)

By the way, the text below is a must-read comment by someone named “stich” responding to AJ’s article. Get out your barf bags.

“You know, I realize that this man supresses women’s equality, and denies the existence of gay’s in his country, but if you didn’t know better, you might think the Dalai Lama wrote some of this. Instead of always focusing on our differences, and villianizing all that he says and does, I think we should set aside our differences, find some common ground and make an honest effort to make friends with him.”

I know it works for me every time.

Regards,
Peter H.

Is it a form of Stockholm Syndrome?

The thing is that the liberals claim that Bush is/does everything Castro, Chavez, Guevara, Stalin etc. is/was/has done. Which only proves that if Bush was even remotely like them, the liberals would fall to their knees and worship him.

Ergo, every claim they make about Bush must, therefore, be bullshit.

The men in women’s fantasies are never nude: they’re wearing a military uniform.

Vera’s about to come down with a case of the vapors…

Then I remembered last year their choice was YOU.

omg, I had forgotten that! lol! And they refused to list President Bush as one of the 100 most powerful people!
How is that rag still in business?

I think the Time editorial board has much more in common with Putin than with any non-communist. It was a slam dunk… even tho’ Time admits Putin is “no Boy Scout”. Heck, Time makes Pravda look tame on some points of America-bashing.

Good for you and Dan in advancing Gen Petraeus’ accomplishments for worthy note. The one lesson Republicans learned from VietNam is to trust the professional military leaders and let them call the shots… I only wish Rummie had taken that lesson to heart, as W has clearly done.

The one lesson Democrats learned from VietNam (as demonstrated by today’s Congressional leaders) is to distrust the military, insert domestic political considerations into strategic military decisions and play any failure up as a leading indice of where ALL things are heading. “Quagmire” is a term TeddieK likes to append to Iraq… when all TeddieK knows about quagmire is the mud and slit at the bottom of Chappaquiddick.

The surge is working and Gen Petraeus is the reason for it. It has to be one of W’s best decisions in 2 terms of office. Bully for him; bully for Bush; bully for you guys!

Then the left would love him and name him Man of the Year!

Certain lefties do seem to have this weird thing going on where a “killer” politician or regime so terrifies them, that they find themselves “fascinated” by him/it (since they can’t admit to feeling terror), and twist their brains into pretzels of rationalization to accept his/its existence, and his/its enemies are then that leftie’s enemies.

Especially if the newfound enemy is, by comparison, very safe to hate. George Bush is clearly safe to hate. As your comment underlines, Livewire, George Bush clearly follows American traditions of tolerating opponents, and is nothing like Putin.

I’m thinking here of that lesbian gal who confessed to warm feelings for Ahmadinnerjacket, but that would only be one example. The admiration of many lefties for such mass murderers as Castro, Che Guevara, Stalin, Mao, Salvador Allende, Saddam (Galloway praised him), Chavez (let’s hope not), etc., is well known.

Is it a form of Stockholm Syndrome? Battered Woman syndrome? It strikes me as a kind of infantile complex, where the abused child needs to justify – and identify him/herself with – the “bad parent” so as to gain an illusion of greater power, security, “rightness”, etc.

All the President would need to do is
[*] Poison Hillary, Al Gore, Obama and PM Brown
[*] Tale over CNN, NBC, ABC, and Fox
[*] Have Andrew Sullivan, Glen Greenwald, and Colin Powel all die in mysterious accidents

Then the left would love him and name him Man of the Year!

Here’s an idea Bruce, how about a poll on which is the most meaningless award. Man of the Year or the Nobel.