This I lift as is from Instapundit, who got it from here:
“WHAT IS HAPPENING OVER HERE:” An email from a soldier in Iraq. “Gen Petraeus is treating the war like a counter-insurgency rather than a stability operation. . . . there is a HUGE difference between the two. . . . However, you don’t see Harry Reid talking about this. When I saw what he said, it really pissed me off. That guy does not know what is going on over here because he hasn’t bothered to come and find out. The truth on the ground in Al Anbar is not politically convenient for him, so he completely ignored it.”
Not only does Harry R. not get it, but neither do Chi Trib et al.* Didn’t Pelosi tell Petraeus she couldn’t fit Petraeus into the House schedule? Yes, at first, but now she thinks he might have something to say, to add to the good stuff she got from the Syrian guy, Bashar al-Assad. No babuschka this time, however.
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*I’m saying this without a site search, which last time I tried it had an AP story that if it ever appeared in hard copy was very hard to find. I read the Trib’s hard copy every day, though not word for word, and I know what they play. Heads and location and story size and big fat picture all go to tell us, this is important. If the story is hard to find, it isn’t, to them at least.
Blithe Spirit 