A couple weekends ago I was struck by something my brother-in-law said.  I was telling him about Rajiv Chandrasekaren's Imperial Life in the Emerald City, and he remarked that there was once a time that there was a sense that we as a country could accomplish really big things but now it seems we can't do anything, even the little things, right. 

I thought of this when I read this little tidbit in the Washington Post, "3 Generals Spurn the Position of War Czar."  Since the current administration doesn't exactly know what it's doing in Iraq and is having an increasingly hard time bringing Afghanistan to heel, they've decided to try the next best thing:  appointing a "high-powered czar" to oversee the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan"?   

Talk about a the perverse "Great Man of History" notion of how things work, but even the people they're approaching know that it's the equivalent of the Captain of the Titanic looking for a new senior officer as everyone else is scrambling for the boats. 

Update (4/11/07):  Atrios nominates Joe Lieberman for the post.