Seven Days In Next May?

Attytood: Politicizing the Pentagon: "So let's get this straight: Over in the Pentagon, they are now busy managing troops that are now overtaxed not just by the endless insurgency in Iraq but also by a 'reinvigorated' Taliban in Afghanistan and a missile threat from North Korea; planning operations like the recent search for two kidnapped and ultimately murdered American soliders, securing more body armor, and so on and so on.

Yet somehow they found the time to write a 74-page briefing book with the sole purpose of trashing Democrats? It's hard to separate government and politics, but certain branches should be above the partisan fray, and that includes intelligence but also the folks who actually wage the wars. A lot of these same generals may be taking orders from a Democratic president (we said 'may') in January 2009, after all.

These people have politicized (and ruined) everything. They take the cynical view that it's all politics, like sending Bush on a junket to Baghdad that did nothing good for the Iraqis -- reminding them of America's imperial role -- and was clearly aimed instead at voters in the mid-term elections. Now, we get this travesty.

The only attacks that Pentagon should be drafting are against foreign troops. There's an old saying that 'war is too important to be left to generals,' but the converse is that politics is too ridiculous to be left to anyone . . ."