Thank you, Gen. Peter Pace, USMC
Once again, Congress shows it’s lack of nads by getting rid of a “real man” who has been the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for the last (nearly) two years. SecDef Gates wanted to nominate Gen. Pace for another term, but the panty-waists on the Armed Services committee said “Oh, but he’s much too masculine and smart for the job. We want someone who will cry and and constantly apologize!” Hhmmpph!!
This is my pick for who should replace Pace.
Lt. Gen. Honore
I’m not holding my breath, though. Congress is definitely stuck on stupid!
Commenter Steve has brought up a very good point about our top military leaders not having sufficient (or even any) combat experience. However, he is incorrect about Gen. Pace.
I found this article, “Fighting door to door” which describes Pace’s first encounter with bad guys trying to kill him.
Several times a day, the US military’s second highest ranking officer, Gen. Peter Pace, glances at a 35-year-old photo of a Marine Corps private. Staring back is Guido Farinaro, the first soldier General Pace lost to combat in Vietnam.
“It’s a way to remind me,” says Pace, whose career in the Marines began with the US military’s last big urban fight. In 1968, about 2,500 marines fought for weeks in the Vietnamese city of Hue to dislodge an enemy force four times their strength.
“I know how difficult it can be,” Pace said last week in a phone interview from his office in the Pentagon as the US 1st Marine Division raced toward Baghdad. “If I’m able to help craft plans to impact the battlefield from a distance that would make it less likely to have to fight inside a city, then I’d like to do that.”
Among the US military’s top generals planning the war in Iraq, only Pace has fought through a city.
Click the link above to read more.
As for Petreaus, he’s “written the book” on counter-insurgency from up-close-and-personal experience. I’m too tired to do the research tonight. Maybe Leta will chime in… 
