"Sarah put her ass on the line for Joe..."

And we all know that where ever Sarah's ass goes her head goes.

This is a war crime that Gen. David Petraeus will be very concerned about. Someone's not getting the message of effective counter-insurgency warfare, the change that Petraeus brought about when Rumsfeld resigned and Tommy Franks and his rodeo cowboys were moved aside. These sorts of tactics are conventional open-battle field tactics historically used since Napoleon but absolutely detrimental to the objective of the primary counter-insurgency strategy of winning the civilian population and playing the roll of their protector. Dumb, dumb, dumb.