Questions for Petraeus

David Corn rounds up some expert opinion on the questions David Petraeus ought to be asked in his congressional testimony next week. It's good stuff. I would add, though, that the whole idea of having a huge political circus centered around testimony from the theater commander is pretty bad. There's no genuine informational content to this sort of thing, and it's not really appropriate for someone in Petraeus' job to be serving as a press spokesman for administration policy. The White House should send someone with a political appointment to defend their policy on the Hill, this isn't the role of career military professionals.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/04/questions-for-petraeus/44131/