Rumsfeld's Enemies and The White Flag of Surrender

Greg Richards at The American Thinker has a must-read post on the "general revolt" against Rumsfeld.

They [generals] obviously feel strongly, although it is unclear to a civilian exactly what it is they feel strongly about. But the bottom line of the criticism is that Rumsfeld must go.

...A resignation by Rumsfeld would be taken – correctly – by our enemies and friends as a running up of the white flag. What charter would his successor have? None other than to liquidate the Iraq venture in the same way that Clark Clifford’s charter after replacing McNamara in 1968 was to liquidate the Vietnam venture (which he did not get a chance to do).

Everyone knows this is not about Rumsfeld - it is about the Bush Administration and the Left's desire to quickly dispose of it, as well as the War on Terror.