Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, discussing General McChrystal’s recommendations for more troops last week: “There are other assessments from, you know, very expert military analysts who have worked in counterinsurgencies that are the exact opposite.”

Apparently those unnamed “very expert military analysts” do not include the Pentagon’s top uniformed military officers.

Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Gen. David Petraeus, the commander overseeing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, have both endorsed Gen. McChrystal’s approach to the conflict publicly in recent days. Adm. Mullen told a Senate panel earlier this month that he also endorsed sending more troops to Afghanistan.

Of course, there’s Joe Biden.

During the campaign, Hillary Clinton kept emphasizing that she sought to speak for all of the Americans who were “invisible” to the Bush administration. I guess we shouldn’t be surprised that as our nation’s top diplomat, she cites the expertise of invisible experts.