Take a tip from David Hackworth<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>, whose <\/P> Hackworth makes a dozen other recommendations, too. Go read the rest. (If you don’t know <\/P> Which brings to mind the investigation of the soldiers who refused<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> convoy Meantime, have a look at Georgie Anne Geyer’s scary column from the other day,
\nrecommendations:<\/P>
\n
\n+<\/B> Immediately fire SecDef Donald Rumsfeld, all of his Pentagon
\nsenior civilian assistants and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Richard
\nMyers.
+<\/B> Replace Rumsfeld with retired Gen. Anthony Zinni and give this tough,
\nsmart, proven leader a free hand to bring in the best people to reshape and streamline our armed
\nforces for the long counterinsurgency fight ahead.
+<\/B> Fire National Security Adviser
\nCondoleezza Rice and replace her with retired Gens. Wes Clark or John
\nSheehan.<\/BLOCKQUOTE>
\n
\n
\nwho he is, check him out<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>.) He’s no armchair
\ngeneral but a candid, experienced, highly decorated combat veteran with a varied
\nmilitary background from World War II on. According to his biography:<\/P>
\n
\nIn 1971, as the Army’s youngest colonel he spoke out on national television
\nsaying, “This is a bad war … it can’t be won we need to get out.” In that interview, he also said
\nthat the North Vietnamese flag would fly over Saigon in four years — a prediction that turned out
\nto be right on target. He was the only senior officer to sound off about the insanity of the war.
\nUnderstandably, Nixon and the Army weren’t real happy with his shooting off his
\nmouth.<\/BLOCKQUOTE>
\n
\n
\norders in Iraq. Whomever is held to account<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>, “it
\nseems far less likely” that Rummy Boy and his minions “will ever have to answer for their
\negregious failures” of planning and leadership.<\/P>
\n
\nre-election could lead to imperial dreams.”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> It comes a long way from the
\nnotion Joan Didion pointed up<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> recently,
\nthat before 9\/11 “it had still been possible to imagine the clouded outcome of the 2000 election as
\nits saving feature, an assured deterrent to any who would exercise undue reach.”<\/P>
\n