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Margaret Carlson makes a conventional observation in Bloomberg that "Bush went general-shopping to
come up with one who would agree with him".
Bush isn't the only customer at the general store. Lincoln bought and sold several generals. According to Kingfish historian, T. Harry Williams, "Lincoln had to personally reorient even Grant's objectives".
I will grant that our friend Mencken is more Mencken than Bush is Lincoln. But Bush has made a change in strategy. Daniel Henninger takes a serious look at the Petraeus plan in today's WSJ.
I love this line from Henninger: " In November, the Bush administration joined the rethinking".
Uh, what were they doing before then?
That's almost as good as NSA advisor Fran Townsend's comment that the failure to catch Osama is a "success that hasn't occured".
You should call yourself "Krok" instead of "Bok."
In the first place, of course, comparing the Cretin of Crawford with Lincoln is absurd and obscene.
In the second place, the statement that Lincoln "didn't listen to his generals" reflects either monumental ignorance of Civil War history or monumental indifference to the truth.
Lincoln reluctantly removed a few generals (McClellan and Hooker, for example) who proved incompetent, but for the most part he respected and deferred to his generals' judgment in military matters. He understood that they were professionals in this area and he was an amateur.
Because, you see, along with other qualities — intelligence, integrity, honor — that Lincoln possessed and Commander Blinky lacks, Lincoln possessed humility.
Chip got it backwards, it was the generals who didn't listen to Lincoln, not the other way around.
In a related story, while our soldiers are fighting and dying to establish a democracy in Iraq, press photgraphers were banned from taking photos during Bush's historic speech.
Perhaps the reason Bush is having such a difficult time establishing a democracy in Iraq is because he has such a hard time understanding the concept in the first place.
While I've come to expect very pro-Republican drawings from Mr. Bok, comparing Bush to Abraham Lincoln is laughable.
You'll all be eating your words after tonight's Gettysburg Address!