It Took A Brit Paper To Name Petraeus Man Of The Year
Chalk another one up for the Mainstream Media here in America, unless I am mistaken (and please correct me if I am wrong) General Petraeus was shunned by all here in the States and it took a British Paper to name him “Man of the Year”.
The Sunday Telegraph gave him the honor:
The critics said it couldn’t be done, but the vision and determination of General David Petraeus have brought greater security and cause for optimism to the people of Iraq. He is The Sunday Telegraph’s Person of the Year.
The sprightly, media-friendly 55-year-old is not perturbed, however, that his face is no longer number one item on the US networks. As he said last week, where Iraq is concerned, “No news is good news.”
Today, we put him in the spotlight again by naming Gen Petraeus as The Sunday Telegraph’s Person of the Year, a new annual accolade to recognise outstanding individual achievement.
He has been the man behind the US troop surge over the past 10 months, the last-ditch effort to end Iraq’s escalating civil war by putting an extra 28,000 American troops on the ground.
So far, it has achieved what many feared was impossible. Sectarian killings are down. Al-Qaeda is on the run. And the two million Iraqis who fled the country are slowly returning. Progress in Iraq is relative - 538 civilians died last month. But compared with the 3,000 peak of December last year, it offers at least a glimmer of hope.
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Envision five years into the future: Iraq a stable democracy with a violence rate no more imposing than what we endure in the West. A new source of petroleum to offset the Saudis. A beacon of potential to other Muslim countries: No, you don’t have to live like slaves to theocratic tyrants!
It is possible because of Petraeus and our troops. And five years hence, he should STILL be Man of the Year!
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December 31st, 2007 at 10:36 amSad that this great man wasnt Time magazines man of the year or something like that here in America. But as sad as that is I say good job to the daily telegraph for noticing General Petraeus for what he has accomplished.
December 31st, 2007 at 11:14 amSorry that we did not do it, but I’m glad that someone did it. He deserves the honor.
December 31st, 2007 at 11:20 amoops missed that,i get the telegraph on a saturday and the times on a sunday,it is of my opinion that if it was not the labour party in charge of our government over here but the conservitives no doubt he would have recieved some sort of public honour,but as the labour party handed out honours to two dozen public sector staff most of whom are desk jockeys[the ones who never get their hands dirty]but not one to the member of the public who broke through from the tube opposite the one in which sadiq khan blew him self up,giving first aid to those injured and giving comfort too a dy’ing man who was cut in half by the explosion,he was not the only one as many as two dozen other members of the public gave succour to those injured on that fatefull day,the worst is that it took more than an hour for the emergancy services too arrive at that tube,both the mans wife and a woman who he saved applied for him to have some sort of honour but no.Sir David Petraeus does have a certin ring to it,he deserves it for putting up with backlash from the dems
December 31st, 2007 at 12:16 pm
to the telegraph. Our media will live in infamy to the future generations
December 31st, 2007 at 1:25 pmHear, Hear, Daily Telegraph. A pint of ale all round barkeep.
December 31st, 2007 at 5:34 pm