The common reaction to the news of the attempted creation of something called, colloquially at least, “War Czar” is that Bush (“The Decider”, mind you) is attempting to create a new Fall Guy for his failures abroad.\u00c2\u00a0 Beyond that, we have the typical commentary for any “moving the boxes around” bureaucratic re-organization or creation — isn’t this the job of (list of officials in charge of war planning and operations), and if not what the hell are they doing?<\/p>\n
Granted the seeming insignificance of the job duties, but I don’t understand why nobody hasn’t taken him up on the offer of “War Czar”.\u00c2\u00a0 It looks like a pretty good position for an industrious aspiring dictator to sidle in from to seize control.\u00c2\u00a0 I imagine Smedley Butler being offered such a duty.\u00c2\u00a0 Stalin and Saddam Hussein came in through bureaucratic manuevers.\u00c2\u00a0 Hitler has a relatively powerless figure-head position that he just killed the chancellor from his position as to seize control.\u00c2\u00a0 Heck!\u00c2\u00a0 Lyndon LaRouche’s designs have always been to seize control through a newly created cabinet position to oversee some emergency or other — AIDS or Asian Financial Crisis — where he levels control of all government into his hands (and quarantaine certain undesirables) because that’s necessary to solve that crisis.<\/p>\n
War Czar as a crisis management tool is a good dictatorial stepping ground.\u00c2\u00a0 Or maybe I’m paranoid.\u00c2\u00a0 Better to accept War Czar as meaningless Fall Guy position that it is and acknowledge that the chances of a dictatorial takeover from that position are negligible.\u00c2\u00a0 Still… who’s controlling the military all of a sudden and what the hell is a “War Czar” supposed to do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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