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The following editorial will be published on Monday by all four branches of the military.
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I think the Military Times Media Group (Army TImes, Navy Times, ...) is owned by Gannett. They are not DoD or "military" publications.
That being said, I cant say I see much value in UStwo's typical photo commentary either. Criticism of the "leaders abilities" is not just coming from the left. The latest criticism has come from two prominent neo-cons who served on Bush's Defense Policy Board and were among the architects of the "invade Iraq to bring democracy to the Middle East" strategy.
Richard Pearl:
According to Perle, who left the Defense Policy Board in 2004, this unfolding catastrophe has a central cause: devastating dysfunction within the administration of President George W. Bush. Perle says, "The decisions did not get made that should have been. They didn't get made in a timely fashion, and the differences were argued out endlessly.… At the end of the day, you have to hold the president responsible.… I don't think he realized the extent of the opposition within his own administration, and the disloyalty."
Perle goes so far as to say that, if he had his time over, he would not have advocated an invasion of Iraq: "I think if I had been delphic, and had seen where we are today, and people had said, 'Should we go into Iraq?,' I think now I probably would have said, 'No, let's consider other strategies for dealing with the thing that concerns us most, which is Saddam supplying weapons of mass destruction to terrorists.' …
Ken Alderman:
Kenneth Adelman, a lifelong neocon activist and Pentagon insider who served on the Defense Policy Board until 2005, wrote a famous op-ed article in The Washington Post in February 2002, arguing: "I believe demolishing Hussein's military power and liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk." Now he says, "I just presumed that what I considered to be the most competent national-security team since Truman was indeed going to be competent. They turned out to be among the most incompetent teams in the post-war era. Not only did each of them, individually, have enormous flaws, but together they were deadly, dysfunctional."
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/f.../neocons200612
These myths that the Ustwo crowd loves to propagate about the left (or the media) being responsible for the outcome of failed policy and incompetent management of that policy is no longer playing with the American people. Its good to see at least two prominent neocons, as well as a growing number of Republican members of Congress put the responsibility where it belongs...with Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, et al.
Cheney: "I haven't seen the piece I'm not going to comment on it....."full speed ahead"