Petraeus warns about Israel

Mark Perry reports about a January briefing of Adm. Mullen by Petraeus' staff. Here's a summary:

The briefers reported that there was a growing perception among Arab leaders that the U.S. was incapable of standing up to Israel, that CENTCOM's mostly Arab constituency was losing faith in American promises, that Israeli intransigence on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was jeopardizing U.S. standing in the region, and that Mitchell himself was (as a senior Pentagon officer later bluntly described it) "too old, too slow ... and too late."

Judging from this writeup in Wikipedia, Perry may actually know something of the matter.