The Rummy Red Herring

On the six retired U.S. Marine and Army generals calling for the resignation or firing of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld: other than that they are going by the book so as to get a book deal, this amounts to meaningless musical chairs. It suggests that if one could locate the source of dysfunction in this administration, things would be on the mend. That’s an error. The perennial calls for resignations or for a reshuffling serve to obscure profound matters of policy and principle, matters the government and most pointy heads can’t and won’t grapple with due to moral and intellectual deficits.