Who is in charge of this war

Douglas Hanson:

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The supreme irony of the campaign against Rummy and the President is that by all indications, both listened intently to their generals in the field and gave them free reign to pursue their post-modern warfighting theories into oblivion. But if the President or the SecDef would have taken drastic action and fired the lot of them, they would have been accused of being LBJ and McNamara reincarnated. A couple of buttinskis unnecessarily restrained our troops in the field, and got rid of those who opposed their devious war plans.

The American people have spoken, and soon the Democrat-controlled Congress won’t have Rummy around to serve as their whipping boy. Iraq needs a real victory over Saddam’s forces and the terrorists. Iran and Syria are waiting in the wings. Come January, the left and the generals will be on the clock to prove to us how Rumsfeld was wrong.

It’s time they delivered.

This is at the end of a long and thoughtful piece that discusses what the Generals in Iraq were supposedly thinking. It is very worthwhile.