An interesting discussion on MSNBC right now.

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General McChrystal has resigned his position as commander in Afghanistan, and has been replaced by General Petraeus.

Since Petraeus is possibly our best General in a generation or two, the question is should we give him a fifth star?

I say no. He's obviously in line for Army Chief of Staff or Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, but the assignment doesn't require a General of the Army. What needs to happen is the White House needs to make something big happen in Afghanistan on any front - military, social, or economic.

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I've got to ask this, since a big portion of my observations of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan was interrupted by repeated facepalming.... In what ways is Petraeus a good general? Not being snarky here at ALL, I'm just trying to understand a subject of which I know very little about (having been, at best, a REMF in the Coasties.)