I don't think I've seen such a well orchestrated hit against a person since Sonny Corleone got taken out at the toll booth in Godfather. The attacks on Petraeus today came from every front. He received heckling from Marxist infiltrators in the gallery He received a sneak attack from MoveOn.Org via the New York Times and he suffered a full-on frontal assault from the Democrat-controlled Committee.

Still for the General, he came out largely unscathed. Assaults on his character, integrity, credibility and his command ability were all carried out, but largely to no effect. I doubt General Petraeus has faced a foe with the tenacity and ferocity of the Left outside of Al-Qaeda, but there you are.

His report said exactly what we expected it to say. The surge worked. The local Sunni warlords got in the game because not in spite of the surge. The al-Maliki government still isn't blowing up our skirts with its political acumen. The Iraqi Army continues to improve and gain combat experience and the forces of Al-Qaeda are repeatedly being decimated.

Militarily, he's done what no one thought could be done earlier in the year or at least that no one thought we'd have the stones to try. I'd say the man deserves a little bit of benefit of the doubt and a whole lot of respect. I don't expect it to come from the Left, but I do expect the rest of us U.S. citizens to maybe at least say "thank you and good job" and be on about our day.

Anything else demeans us a lot more than it does him. If it really is the case where more people believe a bunch of corrupt bureaucrats and communist holdovers sitting in the Swamp over the combat field commander of our forces in time of war, then we really are losing.

Thank you and good job, General Petraeus. You've done your duty and taken us closer to victory. What more could a soldier do for his country?