Again, is this what passes for "journalism" at Slate?
Rum isn't going to prosecute these guys, thats a straw man propped up by a writer with space to fill.
Its a shame that guys who spent their lives preparing for war would leave the service when their supposed skills are finally required. Officers and soldiers alike are re-enlisting in record numbers to return to battle. Whats with these generals, who bail when their men are signing on to stay in the fight?
The skills it takes to rise in the ranks during peacetime aren't the same skills required during wartime; during war its the warriors who matter, and I suppose its inevitable that some of these generals will be pushed aside.
Something similar has to happen over at CIA. A peacetime CIA can't fight its way out of a paper bag, there is a lot of housecleaning to be done over there. They have done little except demonstrate convincingly that they can't be trusted in a fight.
Well Slate is Slate you know. Its sort of like a liberal National Review or what the New Republic used to be like. I do like there Supreme Court reporter and often read the Kaus files they are pretty good.