Is anyone else confused about General David Petraeus’ Monday report ? He brought lots of graphs and statistics, which TV guys love. They didn’t illustrate much to me, though, and the graphs could have been of the stock market or Dick Cheney’s blood pressure, for all I know.
I wonder what they would look like if he included people that were shot in the front of the head. He said those weren’t counted because wounds like that don’t occur in ethno-sectarian violence. And, I guess ethno-sectarian violence isn’t Civil War. I wonder if the people in Lebanon heard that one.
He did say that the different factions all want to fight against El Queda. So, if they are all doing that, why do we need to be there?
And Brit Hume said that El Queda was there when we got there, and is still there. So who have we been fighting?
And exactly what is our mission? And how close are we to accomplishing that mission? Oh, excuse me, we did that in 2003.
I guess I’m not confused after all. Just disappointed.