"Um, who is over all responsible for the yes or no of these types of decisions?"
exactly. I'm not sure how much credit any president should take for the work that y'all are doing over there. While he can make executive decisions, the ultimate success of failure of a mission or military campaign lies with the folks that are executing it, I'm assuming someone over there has the authority to say "Mr. President this REALLY isn't going to work", Bruce Sorge wrote: > Um, who is over all responsible for the yes or no of these types of > decisions? > > Yes, Gen. Petraeus came up with the Surge concept, and we have executed it > well, but the Prez still has overall decision making responsiblity. When the > idea was presented to him he could have said no. We all know that when the > shit hits the fan, or things go well in these areas, the Prez is the one who > gets criticized or praised. > > Bruce > > On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Scott Stewart wrote: > > >> Is this the work of any president, or is this the work of Gen. Petraeus >> and the job y'all are doing on the ground? >> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:278908 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
