No Absolutes
Looky here:
Now the layperson would say, "Oh No! General Petraeus (actually it was Sec. Def. Gates) said there's a 'pause!' We can't do that!"
Ah, but we can:
Nice to see that the military isn't completely buying into the Bush Doctrine of absolutism.
Gen. George Casey said the Army hopes to move from 15-month to 12-month deployments once the U.S. military completes a planned drawdown to 15 combat brigades in Iraq in July.
Now the layperson would say, "Oh No! General Petraeus (actually it was Sec. Def. Gates) said there's a 'pause!' We can't do that!"
Ah, but we can:
Casey said shorter tours should be possible even if Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, recommends a pause in drawdowns, as is widely expected, after the current series of planned withdrawals is complete.
"If Gen. Petraeus is able to execute the announced plan of getting to 15 brigades by July, it would be our goal at that point to return to 12 months," Casey, the Army chief of staff, told the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services.
Nice to see that the military isn't completely buying into the Bush Doctrine of absolutism.
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