West's Afghan Debacle: Commander dismissed as war deaths reach record level by Rick Rozoff http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/75871

"It is emblematic of the peculiarly American art of concocting an overnight hero mythos. The identical technique was exhibited a year ago when Stanley McChrystal was promoted to general to take command of the Afghan war....Petraeus, like the fox in the fable of Aesop, may want to think twice about entering a lion's den in which he sees footprints enter but not come out. Unless political ambition blinds him to the evidence."