Hell Breaking Loose, in a General Sort of Way
The recently-retired-bunch among the nation’s General Officers are on the war-path. They’re individually and collectively after Donald Rumsfeld’s resignation, something Rummy claims to have offered his president on several occasions.
There's a very weird climate out there in politics, with our President unpopular and at the same time unassailable. It’s almost as if, unable to bring down the main man in a Republican controlled Congress, each and (nearly) every cabinet secretary is under fire. Snow, Chertoff, Gonzales, Rumsfeld, all have become targets.
Serious enough targets that they are becoming ineffective in their jobs.
Pardon me while I wax historic, but there was a time when the United States Congress was required to commit us to a state of war. But the Congress has gotten busy, stuffing its socks with money for re-elections and now presidents just go ahead and do that part of the job for them. Congress burps, high-fives the first Bush’s quickie Gulf war, complains about the stalema…