A really, really good essay from Functional Ambivalent. Read it all, but Tom includes this:
Bad as the Bush Administration is — and it is historically, massively, terrifyingly bad — and stupid as the President’s Iraq strategy is — bone-chillingly, take-your-breath-away stupid — part of our system is that the President is the Commander in Chief. Centralizing that command has, history shows, worked very well. Changing the way we fight forever to solve the temporary, though huge, problem of George W. Bush is not something we should do any more than we should toss out the First Amendment because we don’t like Howard Stern.
Seriously: Anyone out there think, in the long term, that it’s a good idea to let Congress run a war?
Good stuff, Tom.