The Fed-Ex War Czar
President Bush finally has his czar and he did it, reportedly, without having ever read Anna Karenina or War and Peace. Czars are easier to love the less you actually know about them.
President Bush finally has his czar and he did it, reportedly, without having ever read Anna Karenina or War and Peace. Czars are easier to love the less you actually know about them.
Bush’s choice was in the stars. All the four-star guys were unwilling. With Army Lt. Gen. (3 stars) Douglas Lute, Bush found his man or his man was found—put your own spin on it.
At any rate, the White House "war czar" is going to oversee the current mess in Iraq and the rapidly disintegrating situation in Afghanistan. Neither of them are actually a war in the sense of a defeatable enemy. Interestingly, spell-check doesn’t much like my use of the word ‘defeatable,’ which can't be found as a dictionary definition but seems to me to be both applicable and accurate for this ‘enemy.’
So good luck to Lute. His task is much like a de…