Schwarzkopf on War

C’mon, people! This whole Schwarzkopf-criticizes-the-President thing is a prime example of the media’s tendency to manufacture controversy where it does not exist.

I was watching the David Frost interview, and here’s how it sounded to me: Schwarzkopf was merely explaining how he, as a military man, saw the situation. He readily admitted that President Bush had to look at the larger picture and that once the decision was made to end hostilities, Schwarzkopf fell right into line. Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney’s so-called “rebuke” was merely an attempt to clarify the general’s comments, but the media somehow seized upon the whole thing, twisted it and invented a story that didn’t deserve one column inch of newsprint or one second of air time.

PAUL McELLIGOTT

Fullerton