And insure that the communists get into power once again. Not exactly a "Hobson's" choice as I see it.
Well, why won't the president listen? He's been compared favorably to Lincoln in many ways BUT ever hear of Simon Cameron and Hannibal Hamlin? They were Lincoln's respective Secretary of War and Vice President before Edwin Stanton and Andrew Johnson...according to Rumsfeld, he has offered resignation twice but has been turned down and, for the life of me, I cannot figure out why. Rove has got to know that he's probably the most unpopular Defense Secretary since McNamara and, if he's willing to fall on his sword for the good of the president and the country, why not let him? I recall a very good Chief of Naval Operations (Kelso) during the infamous Iowa battleship tragedy and tailhook fiasco did just that because, in his words, he became a lightening rod. I also recall that antoher CNO (Jeremy Brooda) commited suicide in the belief that he disgraced the service. Now, I'm not advocating that Rummy do the same but he was a Navy man and he should know where the buck stops when the war in Iraq is in such a mess, the war where he and the vice president claimed we'd be welcomed as heroes, the war where we had an opportunity to corral WMDs going to Syria, where we could have contained looting and the outbreaks of sectarian violence if only he'd have listened to voices such as Gen. Shenseki and committed 500,000 troops to REALLY produce "shock and awe" instead of the plainly insufficient 150,000 in his "shuck and jive" effort!