Krauthammer: General Revolt "Disturbing" and "Dangerous"

Charles Krauthammer sums up his position on the new media darlings, the retired generals who want to fire Rumsfeld. The only problem is that civilians hire and fire generals, not the other way around.

We've always had discontented officers in every war and in every period of our history. But they rarely coalesce into factions. That happens in places such as Saddam's Iraq, Pinochet's Chile or your run-of-the-mill banana republic. And when it does, outsiders (including United States) do their best to exploit it, seeking out the dissident factions to either stage a coup or force the government to change policy.

That kind of dissident party within the military is alien to America. Some other retired generals have found it necessary to rise to the defense of the current administration. Will the rest of the generals, retired or serving, now have to declare themselves as to which camp they belong?

One thing's certain: the more fractured the U.S. military, the happier the Left becomes.