From The Washington Post
By Dan Froomkin

A Washington Post report this morning about President Bush’s futile search for a war czar provides one of the most fascinating and revelatory looks into the inner workings of the White House in a long time.

It is the portrait of a White House flailing around to salvage its disastrous war — while still refusing to acknowledge just how disastrous it’s been.

With Vice President Cheney remaining very much in control of the agenda, the best solution the White House could apparently come up with was one that only the nation’s first MBA president could love: A new layer of management.

Meanwhile, there is apparently no serious consideration being given inside the West Wing to what has become the dominant view of the American citizenry: That Iraq is a lost cause, and that it’s time to start getting out.

And — oh yes — no one with the stature such a job would require is interested in taking it.

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