Direction of Global War on Terror Raises Unsettling Questions

One great task of wartime leadership, said Eliot A. Cohen, a professor of

strategic studies at Johns Hopkins University, “is not only to communicate

resolve and determination and will, but to explain what you are doing

and why you are doing it.”

“I think thus far that is not quite what we have seen,” he said. “We have

seen a tremendous pulse of staunchness, but we have not seen the more

intellectual side of war leadership, making the case for what we are

doing and laying out the arguments for what we do next.” NY Times