Are high-ranking military men not human? Are they not capable of making mistakes and errors in judgment but then learning from them? Under the strict calculus of Andrew Sullivan, Lieutenant General Stanley McChrystal is unfit to lead President Obama's revamped mission in Afghanistan because he once was very close to some of the worst prisoner abuses of the Iraq War.
As someone who has relentlessly beat the drum against torture in any form anywhere the U.S. dares to tread, I would tend to agree with Sullivan, but then I have been reading about General Raymond Odierno, who has gone from being part of the problem in Iraq to being a huge part of the solution as General David Petraeus' understudy during the Surge.
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