Gotta have an experienced young officer corps....keep rotating younger ones thru the fire...
Then again, if he stays, he's also still a winner.
Agreed, but I'd rather he stay in than leave. I just can't imagine another SecDef as appropriate as him right now.
Plus, the press conferences are classics. I remember watching them after 9/11, and Rummy really reassured me that we were going to kick Taliban ass.