David was one of the first to call Petraeus a fraud. But this guy says it better. (Photo via New York Times.)

It’s always nice when someone can say something I said but only better and much smarter. This is from an advanced copy of the Sunday New York Times. It’s written by  Lucian K. Truscott IV. And it’s an example of why the New York Times continues to be one of the last things worth reading. For example:

And now comes “Dave” Petraeus, and the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. No matter how good he looked in his biographer-mistress’s book, it doesn’t make up for the fact that we failed to conquer the countries we invaded, and ended up occupying undefeated nations.

Pretty good, no? Or this:

I would propose that every moment a general spends on his uniform jacket is a moment he’s not doing his job, which is supposed to be leading soldiers in combat and winning wars — something we, and our generals, stopped doing about the time that MacArthur gold-braided his way around the stalemated Korean War.

Any way, any well thought out essay on why Petraeus is a fraud is well worth reading.

A Phony Hero for a Phony War – NYTimes.com.