General Nonsense On Iraq And The Media

I should probably be more respectful towards Gen. Peter Pace, the former head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but it’s difficult.

I mean, even though he was punked by Robert Gates here (not renominated as Head of the Joint Chiefs to disallow the possibility of Congress asking him questions about Iraq – nice), he still managed to lose sympathy points with me based on the following excerpt from this New York Times article today…

Just days earlier, in his valedictory address as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Peter Pace used his final minutes as the nation’s highest-ranking officer to describe how his interactions with Congress and the news media had soured him on both.

“In some instances right now we have individuals who are more interested in making somebody else look bad than they are in finding the right solution,” General Pace said.

Gee, General, maybe we would take you more seriously had you not said here that your former boss, Defense Secretary Rummy, was “inspired by God” (and when it comes to making somebody else look bad, I think there are pretty good examples here from the occupant of An Oval Office, though I realize that it's much more difficult for you to assign blame where it's due than to merely set straw men afire instead).