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To: LindyBill who wrote (202649)4/15/2007 7:02:49 AM
From: unclewest  Read Replies (2) of 793895
 
On Wednesday, Peter Baker and Tom Ricks wrote a front page story in the Washington Post that reported that the White House allegedly is trying to recruit a "War Czar." Since then the narrative they created has become the template all across the media, from Fox News to the Daily Show. Baker did his part repeating it on NPR.

Their story reads like gossip, when in fact it concerns an important and longstanding national security question.

I find this war czar thing to be more madness. We already have the mechanism and personnel in place. All we need are a few simple changes...mostly in our thinking.

The Commander-in-Chief should be the war czar. If he does not want the job, he has two choices:
Request Congress establish a war oversight committee.
or
Give the Joint Chiefs of Staff command authority and make the JCS Chairman the czar. This solution should probably have been put in place permanently when DOD was founded in 1947.

Since the 1986 reorganization of the military under the Goldwater-Nichols Act, the Joint Chiefs of Staff do not have operational command of U.S. military forces. With no command authority, The Joint Chiefs are tits on a bull now. They will be totally useless if we appoint a war czar within the model now being proposed.
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