In the South, many are still fighting the Civil War.
That would include most of my family.
But I imagine even they were a bit surprised to learn last night that a Dead General--from the Union Army no less--was alive and well and leading the troops over in Afghanistan.
You see, it's the South that's fabled to rise again.
But apparently, General George B. McClellan beat us to the punch.
"Well, first, McClellan did not say definitively the surge principles would not work in Afghanistan. Certainly, accounting for different conditions in that different country and conditions are certainly different. We have NATO allies helping us for one and even the geographic differences are huge but the counterinsurgency principles could work in Afghanistan. McClellan didn't say anything opposite of that. The counterinsurgency strategy going into Afghanistan, clearing, holding, rebuilding, the civil society and the infrastructure can work in Afghanistan. And those leaders who are over there, who have also been advising George Bush on this have not said anything different but that."
General George B. McClellan served as commander of the Union army during the Civil War, from Nov. 1861 - March 1862.
General McKiernan, American commander in Afghanistan, whose name was apparently smudged on Palin's crib sheet.
