America’s love affair with generals  Foxnews, The Associated
Press and the UK’s Telegraph are all hinting that General David
Petraeus may run for President. Foxnews and the Telegraph are
actively promoting the idea. The Drudge Report spread the rumor
as well. Petraeus was the architect of the “surge” which the
government says was a towering success, although the exact
nature of this success has never been explained or defined.
Obviously “success” has nothing to do with a peaceful or orderly
or prosperous Iraq.  So, we’re told that Petraeus is a grand
phenom as a general.  We’re also told that he is a brilliant
mind, fearlessly independent, a man of few words, and an
evenhanded weigher of facts uncolored by the ideological battles
of the day.  Never mind the fact that this description could be
applied to every single other general put forward as the
nation’s next greatest president whether it be Norman
Schwarzkopf or Colin Powell or Douglas MacArthur. Americans eat
this stuff up, although the idea that high-ra