Mullings An American Cyber Column By Rich Galen

Mullings An American Cyber Column By Rich Galen: "# This past weekend we celebrated the 60th anniversary marking the start of the Battle of the Bulge.



# Imagine if that six-week battle, which resulted in two hundred thousand - TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND - men dead and wounded on both sides, were being covered the way Iraq is being covered today.



# There would be a public outcry demanding the instantaneous and simultaneous resignations of George Marshall, Dwight Eisenhower and Omar Bradley.



# Military 'analysts' would be all over the cable nets demanding to know 'How did the American military command miss the fact that the Germans had moved more than two full Armies into the Ardennes?'



# Franklin Delano Roosevelt's political opponents - and many of his friends - would be demanding that he change the military leadership which had been faithful to FDR, which was now in danger of losing the war, and which refused to change tactics in the face of a resurgent enemy.



# How the path of history would have altered course if those three men had been forced off the field of battle.



# Thus is the danger of measuring war a battle at a time, and measuring a battle a day at a time.



# The President has set the course. Don Rumsfeld will continue direct the forces necessary to achieve it.



# Kerikterizing Rumsfeld will be a wasted effort and a distraction from the task at hand."