Sunday, December 10, 2006

Deep Thoughts From the Wise Old Men of Washington

Bob Woodward on the Chris Matthews show:

Somebody can come up with some idea. And one idea I heard is that the president has to get- and the Secretary of Defense and the NSC needs to get its finger out of the eye of the military. This is one thing that defined the Rumsfeld era. He was always micromanaging. Find a general. Put him in charge. Say, "You're Eisenhower. You go over there. And figure out what to do."