Generals to public: We're innocent!

Just the thought of agreeing with "Axis Pat" Buchanan makes me want to reach for the Pepto-Bismol. One of the many bad things about the Iraq War is that it's given new credibility to Axis Pat and his Old Right isolationist viewpoint on foreign policy. Which in general ain't good. Everything I remember reading by him about the Second World War could have been taken straight from German Foreign Office press releases of 1939-45. He even blames Poland for being invaded!

But, Lord help us, Axis Pat is right about this part of The Generals' Revolt Antiwar.com 04/15/06:

As those generals must be aware, their revolt cannot but send a message to friend and enemy alike that the U.S. high command is deeply divided, that U.S. policy is floundering, that the loss of Iraq impends if the civilian leadership at the Pentagon is not changed.

The generals have sent an unmistakable message to Commander in Chief George W. Bush: Get rid of Rumsfeld, or you will lose the war. ...

And there is an unstated message of the Generals' Revolt. If Iraq collapses in chaos and sectarian war, and is perceived as another U.S. defeat, they are saying: We are not going to carry the can. The first volley in a "Who Lost Iraq?" war of recriminations has been fired. (my emphasis)

This post also has it's share of Axis Pat's standard fare, including a brief but bogus account of Harry Truman firing Douglas MacArthur during the Korean War. And a goofy analogy about the Russian Czar in 1917; I'm not sure on that one if he's trying to say that the generals are Commie subversives or that they're Heroes of the Republic. With Axis Pat, who knows?

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