Weekly Standard Shows Why Time Has Run Out...

for Time Magazine and the other anti American left wing socialist supporting rags that permeate the barren American Main stream media's landscape, and are becoming as obsolete as the Model T and sadly the printing presses that are used to print them.

Magazines and newspapers that have sold their souls to the radical left liberals and watched their bottom lines drop to the basement as conservatives and other independent seekers of truth obtain their information from non slanted sources whenever possible.

Time picking Putin over General Patreaus was an obvious spit in the eye of conservatives and supporters of the Iraq war that has turned around in a big way thanks to his counterinsurgency expertise and leadership. This is something the venomous liberals will deny and ignore right up until the very moment they can again spit in the faces of the soldiers coming home, this time victorious in spite of the left's attempted sabotage as during Vietnam at their local airports throughout next year, leading right up to a Republican win in 2008 as the country quickly recognizes the disgusting behavior of the left during the war prolonged victory while aiding and abetting the enemy along the way.

William Kristol and the Weekly Standard sets the record straight on the real one and only man of the year for this country, General Petreaus:

Gen. David Petraeus; Man of the Year:

Time magazine got it wrong.
by William Kristol
WeeklyStandard.com

I remember the excitement. It was the week before Christmas a year ago, and I had lazily picked up my copy of Time magazine. And there it was: Time's Person of the Year for 2006 is 'You.'

Wow! We deserved credit, Time judged, 'for seizing the reins of the global media, for founding and framing the new digital democracy, for working for nothing and beating the pros at their own game.' Thanks, Time!

And thanks for not choosing the obvious alternative--Nancy Pelosi, who had led the Democratic takeover of Congress. That takeover, Time editors and many others hoped, heralded our withdrawal from Iraq. However much they may have desired that outcome, Time was lucky not to select Pelosi. In the subsequent 12 months, she and her colleagues failed to impose a defeat in Iraq. Instead, President Bush announced a new strategy and a new commander, General David Petraeus, in January 2007. And all the real achievements of this year belong to them.

We are now winning the war. To say this was not inevitable is an understatement. Even those of us who were early advocates and strong supporters of the surge, and who thought it could succeed, knew the situation had so deteriorated that success was by no means guaranteed. Two military experts told me early in 2007 that they thought the odds of success were, respectively, 1-in-3 and 1-in-4. They nonetheless supported the surge because, even at those odds, it was a gamble worth taking, so devastating would be the consequences of withdrawaland defeat.

We at THE WEEKLY STANDARD thought the chances of success were better than 50-50--but that it remained a difficult proposition.

Petraeus pulled it off. The war is not over, of course. Too quick and deep a drawdown--which some in the Pentagon and elsewhere in the Bush administration are, appallingly, pushing for--could throw away the amazing success that has been achieved. Still: It is as clear as anything can be in this world, where we judge through a glass darkly, that General David H. Petraeus is, in fact, America's man of the year." continued

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