Thursday, September 06, 2007
(10:08 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
David Petraeus
The Wikipedia entry for the infallible oracle of Iraq contains an interesting anecdote:As battalion commander of the Iron Rakkasans, he suffered one of the more dramatic incidents in his career when, in 1991, he was accidentally shot in the chest during a live-fire exercise when a soldier tripped and his rifle discharged. He was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, where he was operated on by future Senator Bill Frist. The hospital released him early after he did fifty push ups without resting, just a few days after the accident.He's never seen combat duty, but rest assured: the guy is heroically committed to his administrative duties.
This kind of story would really help him in his world-historical presidential run -- and, incidentally, I would be totally in favor of him deciding to run as a third-party candidate. We really need a candidate out there whose entire platform is continuing an unpopular and hopeless war.
