Problems of Invasionism MDCCLXXVI

"[Generals] Pace, Schoomaker and Casey found themselves badly out of sync with the White House in the fall of 2006, finally losing control of the war strategy altogether after the midterm elections. Schoomaker was outraged when he saw news coverage that retired Gen. Jack Keane, the former Army vice chief of staff, had briefed the president Dec. 11 about a new Iraq strategy being proposed by the American Enterprise Institute, the conservative think tank. "When does AEI start trumping the Joint Chiefs of Staff on this stuff?" Schoomaker asked at the next chiefs' meeting.

Of course GOP, not AEI, is trumps.

Mere hired-hand violence pros DO come in a distant third, however, in the Coalition of the Willful™, well in back of fat Freddy K.