[Destro]

There is a phenomenon here lately of hero or celebrity worship. This is the first time a SoDefense or any cabinet member has ever had a cheering section, fan club. The reason has to with talk radio which creates such things because they need something to talk about and what gets people listening is an us vs them rhetoric.

It may have always been the case I just notice it to the extreme now.

Lincoln fired many a general before he got to Grant.

[AndyJackson]

There is a phenomenon here lately of hero or celebrity worship

Rumsfeld has to fight dead-enders in Iraq and dead-enders here in the US. It sounds like you are one of the guys made "redundant" by the new rules of war, and yes war has changed radically since the fusion of real time intelligence situational awareness and precision strike.