“Sanchez was one of the top military people who condoned that, if not directly, then by his silence.”
The same criticism could levelled at Sanchez' replacement, Gen. Casey, and the many other flag officers involved in this Fiasco and that's exactly what LTC Yingling did in his Armed Forces Journal article. This article seemed to have opened up the debate on Iraq within the military and other general officers have also made un-Powerline like comments about the war, notably Maj. Gen. Charles Dunlap:
Earlier this year, Maj. Gen. Charles Dunlap, an Air Force officer in the Pentagon with a penchant for stirring up debate, suggested that Gen. Petraeus's narrative missed the point. The U.S. was struggling in Iraq because it had no business using a large ground force to fight a guerrilla war, he argued in Armed Forces Journal. "Absent overwhelming numbers, it is virtually impossible for even well-equipped ground forces to defeat insurgencies in the midst of sullen populations often sympathetic to the enemy," he wrote. He advocated replacing large numbers of U.S. troops with indigenous forces bolstered by American precision bombs and surveillance planes.
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