Pace Out

• "The Bush administration said Friday that it would not reappoint Gen. Peter Pace to a second term as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, making him the highest-ranking officer to be a political casualty of the fight over Iraq".
• "When he steps down at the end of September, he will become the shortest-serving chairman since Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor in 1964, during the early years of the Vietnam War.

Too closely identified with Rumsfeld and the Iraq or bust crowd. Nov. 7th changed a lot of things. Now the administration is going for a drawdown after the "surge", but still planning to stay for a long time in reduced numbers. And the National Security Adviser is being cut out of Iraq and Afghanistan policy. Big failures cause big shake-ups.
- posted by john @ 4:38 PM