It bothers me to no end, that George Bush is attempting to hire a war czar to sub for him in his role as Commander in Chief. If he were any good at being President, it would be like the number one NFL draft pick, putting an ad in the paper to higher high school quarterback to sub for him throughout the entire NFL season.
But in reality President Bush isn't any good at being President, and he still trying to hire a high school quarterback to run the entire US military, US intelligence network, the Pentagon and who knows what else. This is got to be the craziest, scariest thing I've heard from the Bush administration yet.
On the surface, it might seem like a poor attempt to lay blame for the failures of the war a scapegoat now that Donald Rumsfeld is gone. But it also seems like an extremely dangerous move to concentrate that much power into an unelected on congressionally confirmed person. President Bush was elected to have his finger hovering over the button, not for him to hire a lackey to let their finger hover over the button.
I think he should be impeached just for thinking about it!
Now fortunately the first four generals that the Bush Administration has offered the job to have turned it down cold. Apparently they can tell a turkey when they see one. Bush doesn't need to throw more generals at the problem, he needs to come up with a political solution to coexist with the military strategy. Currently he doesn't have a political solution and he churns through military strategies like a three-year-old at the fair trying to win a grab bag.
All in all this concept sounds like one of those crazy ideas that comes out a group of people that are working in a silo. He's not getting good outside opinions, and the brainstorming taking place inside some sort of RFI shielding network gone bad is is yielding nothing but static. This is just a bad idea all the way around.
1 comment:
Sure! Why not give Cheney the lead role he's been playing from off-stage?
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