What does Scowcroft hope to gain? I suspect the old fart is mad as hell that GW never calls him for his "perspective" and so he tries to undermine the President at every opportunity.
Iraq is going badly because we are fighting with our hands tied behind our back again, just like we did in Nam.
We let the terrorists get a leg up when the RATS started their 2 year anti-war undermining effort to defeat Bush. They are doing the same thing with the "torture" nonsense.
We need to get tough and ruthless with terrorists and their supporters, including the traitorous left. Until we do that, our land is not safe.