Et tu, Andrew?

Andrew Sullivan disappoints again:

[W]e have to be accountable to ourselves and to our ideals. We cannot dismiss, as president Bush did yesterday, the gravity of the events by refusing to hold anyone in his administration accountable."

How does depriving the military of the one man who knows it well enough and is is tough enough to control it add up to more accountability? I have no doubt that there are a lot of systemic problems in the Pentagon. One of them is the rivalry between service branches and another is the the love for expensive and unwieldy tools for fighting the last war. There is no dearth of Rumsfeld critics in the Army because he is insisting that we need to have a military that can move faster and we can't take 6 months to prepare for every battle. The proper model should be Afghanistan, not the occupation of Germany. We don't want to be in Iraq any longer than we have to be, but we haven't quite figured out how to shorten the time it takes to eliminate all the dead-enders and the foreign Mujahadeen flocking in.

Maybe our biggest mistake was taking prisoners in the first place, knowing how freaky our media are about the rights of thugs and terrorists.