As Harry Truman supposedly said of Douglas MacArthur, "I didn't fire him because he was a son-of-a-bitch. If I did, I have to fire all the generals. I fired him because he refused to obey the orders of the President of the United States."
Changes of high command during war are often ugly, and this one is no exception.
If anyone can execute a winning strategy in Afghanistan, it is probably General David Petraeus. It would be ironic if President Barack Obama, who like Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson, came into office with an ambitious agenda of domestic reform if not cultural transformation, becomes identified in history with a barely understood foreign war.
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