Proof: Bush is Worse than Nagin

I'm not a big fan of New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, and the fact that it took him a year and a half to appoint Ed Blakely as the city's recovery "czar" (see earlier post linking to NYT story on same) has stood as the evidence of how long it's taken the Mayor to realize the vacuum of leadership in the city. But...today's Washington Post story
that the White House is now, in the fifth year of the Iraq war, trying to find a "czar" to knock heads together at State and Defense--long after the Pentagon's disastrous dismissal of the comprehensive post-war plan developed for the disastrous conflict, because the plan was generated by the State Department--proves that there are "leaders" in this country who take even longer to grasp the obvious than does Mr. Nagin.
The money quote from the Post piece:

"The very fundamental issue is, they don't know where the hell they're going," said retired Marine Gen. John J. "Jack" Sheehan, a former top NATO commander who was among those rejecting the job. Sheehan said he believes that Vice President Cheney and his hawkish allies remain more powerful within the administration than pragmatists looking for a way out of Iraq. "So rather than go over there, develop an ulcer and eventually leave, I said, 'No, thanks,' " he said.

Sounds like the grownups are in charge.