Bloodless Coup

Holding Our Leaders Accountable When We Are at War

As Alex notes, in the past, in the midst of much more threatening situations than we happen to be in at the moment, we managed to both prosecute a war and hold people who failed to lead or competently defend the country accountable for their failures. To me that's essential for our country's success, and there's nothing un-American about it. In fact this notion that every bit of accountability and resposivness in government should cease just because we face a difficult situation strikes me as appalling claim of weakness - both in terms of our capabilities and in terms of our moral character - and those are hardly characteristics we should want to put out in front of the rest of the world, particularly when we are engaged in fights like we are now. It's too bad Victor David Hanson has such an unfortunate lack of faith in the country's ability to practice what it preaches. It's also too bad he doesn't crack a book and do some research before drawing analogies from World War II.