This commander in chief only commands his senior staff, corporate style-top down. He is totally hands off if all the books and articles written about this president have even a grain of truth to them. He is, apparently, no military tactician, nor even inquisitive about much of anything beyond his Mayberry Machiavelli games.

Put our troops in harms way, and abandoned them there is what it appears to me. We have a close family friend who just deployed to Kosovo, but says that if it gets any worse in Iraq, they may be redeployed to Iraq. Apparently, there is some concern right now in the rank and file military that Iraq could blow sky high by summer, and all the resources of the US military would need to be redeployed to Iraq just to get the troops and personnel we have there now, out.

Not a very cheery thought, that.