TV Generals make for a dangerous picture

It's now clear that in the run-up to the war, during the war in 2003 and in its aftermath, we would have all benefited from hearing more from experts on Iraq and the Middle East, from historians, from anti-war advocates. Retired generals play a role, an important one. But for the networks, they played too big of a role—just as the "military" solutions in Iraq play too big of a role, just as the military solutions in the war against terrorism swamp every other approach.