I’ve just finished listening to General Petraeus’ briefing to Congress on NPR. Amidst screaming protesters actually inside the briefing room (how’d that happen?), the highly-decorated and highly-respected top military commander didn’t really say anything at all.
He recommends delaying any official decision on reducing the main body of American troops in Iraq for at least 6 months.
Not since Gen. William C. Westmoreland addressed a joint session of Congress in 1967, during the height of the Vietnam War, has so much attention been focused on a briefing by a military commander.
I, for one, am glad my attention was focused on 45 minutes of nothing.
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