The General's Misstep
By Eugene Robinson (THE WASHINGTON POST, 17/10/06):
Gen. Richard Dannatt, the new chief of staff of the British army, was absolutely right when he said last week that Britain should withdraw its troops from Iraq "sometime soon" because their presence was fueling the insurgency, not quelling it. And Tony Blair, the prime minister whom Dannatt so expertly sandbagged, would have been absolutely right to fire him on the spot.
I don't know about you, but it makes me nervous when generals start publicly usurping the prerogatives of elected politicians -- even misguided politicians such as Blair who loyally follow their wrongheaded allies into bloody, pointless misadventures.… Seguir leyendo »