He may not have the stones for the job.
I've seen you around and I think you and I are largely on the same wave-length, politically speaking.
Lately, I'm getting this unsettling feeling from Washington DC. Something like what those with some foresight might have felt at the beginning of the Vietnam War.
To wit:
Rumblings about no bombing during Ramadan;
Pinpoint (prick?) missile attacks that leave Taliban troop concentrations in place. Where are the B-52's? Why aren't we carpet bombing those bastards? On the Northern Front, we know where they are, right?
Kow-towing to our Paki and Saudi "allies";
Ummmm, when do we start destroying Saddam's WMD facilities? Can't we walk and chew gum at the same time?
Better start preparing people for civilian casualties and stop reacting to every lie re: same from the Taliban.
I don't know, maybe I'm over-reacting, but it doesn't seem like we've taken the necessary steps to accomplish our goals here. Krauthammer has a great column in the Washington Post about this today. Powell is making a fetish out of coalition building and I think we are seeing that this is an impediment to accomplishing our objectives.