Dear Editor:
RE “A war on two fronts.” (Feb 7):
It sounds like a war on three fronts if you include General Rick Hillier. Unlike their U.S. counterparts, Canadian generals usually keep a low profile. General Rick Hillier is different; he wallows in the media limelight. Hillier’s popularity with his troops and with the media puts Stephen Harper between a rock-and-a-hard-place.

Harper is too politically savvy to publicly reprimand Hillier because it’s likely the general has political ambitions of his own when his military career is done. So Harper probably feels ( as Lyndon B. Johnson did regarding the powerful FBI “dictator” J. Edgar Hoover) that: it’s probably better to have Hillier inside the tent peeing out, than outside the tent peeing in.

William Bedford
Toronto, Ontario

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