By naming Petraeus to a job that lasts into the next administration, Bush ensures that the new president will confront the military's strongest voice for maintaining a big force in Iraq.We have this sense that Bush's unpopularity, his 20 something percent approval rating, and the rupture within the Republican Party which includes a long list of retiring Congressional people, indicates some type of grand swinging of the political pendulum back to at the very least a more central place.
And Petraeus has emerged as a leading critic of Iran's interference in Iraq, making his appointment a signal of heightened U.S. attention to Tehran.
This is not so. Bush makes political appointments and his appointees will be around for a long time to come. This is how the Bush 'legacy' really works.
In the case of Petraeus the neo-conservative agenda, which is the core of the Bush administration policy, in part is helped to remain intact.
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