MB Civic

By Greg Jaffe | Sunday, October 11, 2009 | The Washington Post

“…It is hard not to look at Stanley McChrystal without seeing David Petraeus. Both generals are fitness freaks, capable of running soldiers half their age into the ground. Within hours of taking command of faltering wars, both were vowing to remake their forces. ‘We must change the way we think, act and operate’, McChrystal wrote in September instructions to his troops in Afghanistan. He was practically channeling Petraeus, circa 2007, who challenged his troops in Iraq to adopt a new ‘warrior-builder-diplomat’ mind-set….”…BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/09/AR2009100902568_pf.html