[okie01]

IF we are in the midst of a crisis, the last thing we need is generals who are fighting the last war.

Or generals who don't believe we're in a war. Or don't believe that it's necessary to win.

[RobbyS]

Speaking of wars, I have sadly concluded that Bush didn’t realize that he had to win in Iraq until toward the end of his term. I was astonished that after his re-election, he turned to domestic issues rather than bring that war to a conclusion. Lord knows how he really saw things. I doubt we’ll ever know. We still don’t know what Harry Truman was thinking about the Korean War in 1951.