American generals are not political innocents, though they have to act as if they were. When Lieutenant General William Wallace, the commander of American ground forces in Iraq, ruefully told journalists on March 27 that "the enemy we're fighting is different from the one we'd wargamed against" and predicted a much longer war, he was launching a cruise missile straight at the U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.Everybody in Washington knows that it was Rumsfeld who ignored professional military advice and insisted on "war lite" in Iraq. Rumsfeld and his civilian allies control the upp...
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