Sunday, January 09, 2005

Quagmire inspector

Members of the chattering class are attempting to make the case that the upcoming dispatch to Iraq of a retired 4 star general, to observe conditions on the ground and report back to the Pentagon, signals the Administration's belated acceptance that things really are a mess there.

Not so fast daddy-o. Contrary to the New York Times' characterization of this general's mission as "unusual", it is not so at all. These missions are called 'directed telescope', and they allow commanders to get information that they don't receive through command channels. Rather S.O.P., it turns out. Of course the media wasn't throwing around the term 'quagmire' when the little Corsican utilized the directed telescope.

Chester fills us in.

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