TM7..for your info...
Not all generals are "political critters"..Obviously Washington, MacClelland, Grant and Eisenhower were...and more recently, Gen Wesley Clark during the last Democrat runoff in 2004.
Have we heard anything about Gen Schwartzkopf or Gen Tommy Franks running for US Senate..or any of the 4,000 to 6,000 other retired generals & admirals ?
So a President tries to get generals on the Joint Chiefs of Staff that he can work with !
Bwaaa...Surely it would be more sensible for the Commander in Chief to appoint generals that would start arguing with his every suggestion as soon as he made it !
Haw, Haw...Some chief executive that would be !
Certain congress people , after UNANIMOUSLY appointing Gen Petraeus to his job, would now like us to believe he found his 4 stars in a Cracker Jacks box !
In these discussions that are presently transpiring, we are talking about MILITARY things..both strategic and tactical !
Of course, with so much prevailing wisdom floating around capitol hill, we can be assured that Gen Teddy Kennedy, Gen Chuckie Schumer, Admiral Nancy Pelosie and General Harry Reid collectively, are much more well versed on the MILITARY, both strategically and tactically than Gen Petraeus and the Joint Chiefs of Staff !!!
Strangely; these same "worthies" have not said a peep about Wm Jefferson's " cool (freezer) Cash", Hillary's .. Mr. Hsu and the Chinese millions ....
Shucks ! They haven't even inquired into Teddy's midnight swim off the Dyke street bridge so many years ago..
Methinks they are less "watch dogs" and more... just rabid "attack dogs"...LOL