Critics need to move on.
Victor Davis Hanson points out in this essay from The National Review that it's easy to be an armchair quarterback, as a small number of retired generals have turned out to be in recent days. Those generals are entitled to their opinions of course. But it is well to remember that they are but a small number from the total who are now serving or have retired. And just as in the realm of politics where disagreement is the means by which ideas and policies are sorted out, there are theoretical debates about how the military should be structured for the world of the 21st century. Will we see the same kinds of conflicts in this new century as we did in the past one; nation against nation and army against army on well defined battlefields? Or will this new era present us with problems that require new methods and approaches that those of the past? That is the question that one must ask, and answer in order to evaluate the present policy in Iraq, as well as the future of our war against the Islamofascists.
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