I don't think Franks is going to be any kind of fall guy. Nor Rumsfeld, for that matter. Both serve at the pleasure of the president, and only the president. All the evidence is that they both have his confidence.

At the end of the day, Truman said it best with his desk sign. The buck stops here. If there is criticism to be made about the plan, the only proper place to lodge it is with the commander in chief.

But to do that, people have to wait more than 11 days into a military campaign. I know you are all itching for failure, but you are going to have to be patient like the rest of us and see how it actually turns out. All this quagmire and failure talk is vastly premature, not to say inconsistent with the facts on the ground. This is not "Task Force Smith" and even if it was, the US managed to survive that mistake. If a mistake was made here, it can and will be corrected.