"THE GENERALS ARE REVOLTING"

Good article and critique of the six retired generals calling for Donald Rumsfeld's resignation over at The American Thinker by Herbert E. Meyer, who served during the Reagan Administration as Special Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence.

Six retired generals have now called for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on the grounds that… well, just what has the Secretary done, or not done, that justifies his removal from the Pentagon in the middle of a war?

Read through all the generals’ statements, or listen to them on television, and it’s impossible to get straight precisely what it is these generals are squawking about. One minute they’re talking about our strategy in Iraq, and then they’re blathering on about the Secretary’s plans for re-structuring our military forces or about Donald Rumsfeld’s hard-driving, aggressive management style. (full post)