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How Long Will Right Wing Ignore Gen. Petraeus?
On Sunday, May 24, Gen. David Petraeus said, in an interview on Radio Free Europe (RFE), that he backed the “responsible” closing of Gitmo and the end of torture during interrogations.
Less than a week later — on May 29, this past Friday — the General repeated those points on FOX News, going a step further to say, “When we have taken steps that have violated the Geneva Conventions, we rightly have been criticized … ”
Other than Petraeus’ back and forth with FOX’s Martha MacCallum during their interview, I have seen no evidence that the right wing has responded.
Surely, I thought, I must be missing something.
So I checked Memeorandum, and found no related right-wing commentary, in the wake of either of the General’s interviews, RFE or FOX.
Next, I searched and scanned a random sample of right wing sites — including Hot Air, Hugh Hewitt, RedState, Michelle Malkin, Jules Crittenden, and Rush Limbaugh — and still I found no direct or indirect response to the General’s words, following either of his recent interviews.
Granted, two days prior to Petraeus’ RFE interview, Rush was his usual apoplectic self on Liz Cheney’s smackdown of Lawrence O’Donnell over “enhanced interrogation.” But nothing since then with respect to Petraeus’ remarks.
What am I missing here? If the right wing has responded to Petraeus — either agreeing or disagreeing with him — please, show me where. (Links are always appreciated.) If not, if the right wing has been as silent as they seem to be, will anyone confront them about their oversight?
(An unsolicited suggestion to CNN’s returning Campbell Brown: This seems like a ready-made topic for “No Bias. No Bull.”)
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UPDATE: Regular TMV commenter, “DaGoat,” is clearly a more competent searcher than I am. He offers this link to CK MacLeod at HotAir. I scanned MacLeod’s take on the matter and it struck me, on first blush, as a rather twisted (“tortured”?) read of Petraeus’ remarks. But at least MacLeod responded. That’s one.
4 Responses to “How Long Will Right Wing Ignore Gen. Petraeus?”
What am I missing here? If the right wing has responded to Petraeus — either agreeing or disagreeing with him — please, show me where. (Links are always appreciated.)
It took me 30 seconds to find this.
http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2009/06/01…
“What am I missing here?”
Pretty much the gist of the entire interview. Petraeus does not differ from Bush and Cheney.
“….T here might be an exception and that would require extraordinary but very rapid approval to deal with, but for the vast majority of the cases, our experience downrange if you will, is that the techniques that are in the Army Field Manual that lays out how we treat detainees, how we interrogate them — those techniques work, that's our experience in this business.”
Three high value detainees were waterboarded early on when time was critical. Reading his quote, that is exactly what he is saying should be available.
If you didn’t rely on Amato to interpret English for you, you might have caught plain language agreement with the administration’s policies on enhanced interrogation.
As far as closing Gitmo, wasn’t it Bush who called for a “responsible” closing of the facility?
The benefits and drawbacks of closing Gitmo have been argued enough, but I don’t see the rift leftist want between Petraeus and Bush/Cheney.
So Hot Air made a big deal out of Petraeus saying “on balance” it's a good thing on both ending Gitmo and “enhanced interrogation” (aka torture).
And EVEN jwest admits Bush called for closing Gitmo. So now Bush, Petraeus, Gates and the Joint Chiefs call for closing Gitmo. Yet the GOP is fearmongering against it.
Out of tune, out of touch, and fortunately, out of power.
What GreenDreams said.