Frum and the other the Neocons are searching for a new host on which they can serve as parasite, just like when the switched from the Democrats to the GOP. I think Frum was mainly bothered that this was published before the election. He is hedging his bets and some freepers are buying it hook, line, and sinker.
Sorry, I have not kept up with whatever history is driving your animus towards Mr. Frum.
I think you should take your confirmed bias concerning him out of the issue and look at the specifics of the facts and ideas and, on that basis, decide if his comments have merit.
I have been pointing out, for a long time here, how the new State Dept under Condi has, week by week, month by month, relfected what has seemed to me like a disconnect between Bush's ideas and State's actions. I thought only a John F. Kerry State Department could - in the midst of the standoff between Israel and Hizbolla - demand that no cease fire was worth having if it returned everything to the "status quo ante" and then deliver just such a result, and worse. Yet, that is the kind of ineffective, feckless State Department Condi has delivered and nothing about her chuminess with Palestinian terrorists is reflected in any words from Bush. She seems to be running her own foreign policy.
What does this matter, with respect to David Frum's comments. Part of his comments noted the same kind of diconnect between Bush and the actions of the National Security Council - when Condi was in charge there.
They wouldn't serve in Vietnam either. Don't expect them to hang around when things get rough.