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In a few years I think we'll look back on Petreus as one of the more pitiful characters of this ugly chapter of our history...a man who put his ambition and ass kissing ahead of all else and put his eggs in the wrong basket.

Fact is Petreus is the antithesis of an Eisenhower or Grant...who believed in the overall cause they were fighting for. Petreus showed little of that in his testimony...in fact he was embarassing in how narrowly he was focused and had no response to the question of "what happens next". And this is a "man with a vision"? Hardly.

The most telling tale of Petreus' fate is the war he's losing...inside the Pentagon. Fallon's all but trashed him and Gates is nowhere to be seen. Petreus has become a boooosh-licker and this will be his ultimate downfall both within the military and in politics. No one will vote for a military type who loses a war...and that will be Petreus' ultimate legacy.