General David Petraeus: Man of the Year

Of all the people in the world Time magazine chose president Vladimir Putin as their person of the year. Its pretty darn absurd, downright laughable. I don't feel so bad now that I've never bothered to read Time. Course, didn't they choose Hitler as their man in 1938 too?

For whatever reason, founder of Time Henry Luce had....it may be that they really missed a very good opportunity to sell bundles instead, by naming General David Petraeus as our Man of the Year. The American people yearn for a leader. Gen. Petraeus is a humble man of strength and honor.

Petraeus pulled it off. The war is not over, of course. Too quick and deep a drawdown--which some in the Pentagon and elsewhere in the Bush administration are, appallingly, pushing for--could throw away the amazing success that has been achieved. Still: It is as clear as anything can be in this world, where we judge through a glass darkly, that General David H. Petraeus is, in fact, America's man of the year.

Time ludicrously chose to make Russia's ex-KGB agent-turned president Vladimir Putin its cover boy. They just couldn't make Petraeus man--oops--person of the year. Our liberal elites are so invested in a narrative of defeat and disaster in Iraq that to acknowledge the prospect of victory would be too head-wrenching and heart-rending. It would mean giving credit to George W. Bush, for one. And it would mean acknowledging American success in a war Time, and the Democratic party, and the liberal elites, had proclaimed lost.

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Please forgive...but I've yet to figure out how to attach video's on my blog. I've got problems with cookies something or another. So I can only attach the URL to the video of Gen. Petraeus (for president).. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA6NgzTbCYQ

Thanks for your patience :)

H/T to Hot Air