Is Someone at the New York Times a Black Republican?
Them:
What we were witnessing was, in fact, blowback from a bitter animosity that dates to the very beginning of this Bush administration. And it is about bigger things than the number of soldiers in Iraq. It is about who runs the military, and how to propel it into the modern age.Me, in a letter to Andrew Sullivan, yesterday:
Rumsfeld is looking at a DoD - especially the in the Army corner of the Pentagon - that needs serious renovation. It's possible that he's playing a little DoD politics, and taking gambles with our men. It's possible that they didn't expect such a "hard" fight when we went in. It's possible they're overestimating the power and accuracy of the Air Force and underestimating the need to put boots on the ground. Possible - but not likely.
