``[Zinni] says senior officials at the Pentagon are guilty of dereliction of duty -- and that the time has come for heads to roll. Correspondent Steve Kroft reports.
...But [Zinni] wasn't the only former military leader with doubts about the invasion of Iraq. Former General and National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft, former Centcom Commander Norman Schwarzkopf, former NATO Commander Wesley Clark, and former Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki all voiced their reservations...''
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While it is fine to say heads should roll and every little bit helps to de-construct US military occupation of Iraq, all of this misses two fundamental issues. There never should have been a attack, invasion, and occupation in the first place. If all of that was botched then it only compounds the absolutely false premise of the war. There should be no war. Starting random wars in the Muslim world was the wrong policy response to the 9/11 terrorist attack. These wars are ludicrous.
In any event arguing about who was responsible for the incompetent planning and execution of the completely absurd, is surreal. Who cares? This story is journalistic autism.
The second and much more important and pressing point now is getting out of Iraq and Afghanistan and dismantling all the mis-conceived military and civilian apparatus of George Bush's War on Terrorism.
CG