All Hail the Czar!

And good luck. General Douglas Lute is chosen by President Bush to coordinate the war effort for the White House. The Midtopia blog has an interesting quote from Lute from the Charlie Rose Show which is eerily prescient of his new job:

The other thing I would point to, Charlie, is the importance of
taking this on, not simply as a military fight, but as a multi-agency fight
where different arms of the government, the intelligence arm, the military arm
for sure, the State Department, diplomatic arm, economic arm, those who bring
law and order systems into a post-conflict scenario, that all these arms come
together in an integrated networked way.

There's also a link to video from the entire interview in 2006. Sounds like a good choice to me, and here's hoping the general has the tenacity to see his views through. You can find the general's military bio here.