This makes sense.  Newt Gingrich came up with the idea for a "war czar."  Anybody else remember some other brilliant ideas Newt's come up with that the White House and Pentagon have acted on? 

Here's one:  When Donald Rumsfeld was looking for a new idea for how to invade Iraq, Newt hooked him up with a guy who advocated driving straight to Baghdad and then holding the city with something like 5000 men?  Okay, we didn't do that but you can't tell me it didn't have some influence on Rumsfeld's constant meddling in war planning and his overarching insistence on a ridiculously small invasion force.