The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will not continue forever. What will this "war czar" once these wars have ended?

Sent by Fritz Herrick | 2:19 PM ET | 05-17-2007

Isn't the Commander if Chief a defacto war czar?
This new post is yet another symptom of the fact that President Bush is in over his head. I hope the next American President is an adult and can take responsibility for his actions and policy mistakes.

Sent by Concerned Citizen | 2:24 PM ET | 05-17-2007

I notice that most of the people picked for intelligence and coordination are military people. Where are the civilians in dicision making? What about group think?

Sent by Steven Diamond | 2:32 PM ET | 05-17-2007

The fifth labor: Never have a heard a more apt metaphor of the current Iraq situation as 'the Augean stables' Kudos

Sent by DAN DORRIS | 2:40 PM ET | 05-17-2007

I find it strange that this and most conuntries on this planet don't have a governmental "Peace Department" and a "Peace Czar" to go with it.

Sent by Peter Rashford | 2:44 PM ET | 05-17-2007

This war Czar post is just going to damping a good mans carear.The problem is not know how,A powerful Syria and Iran will never allow a democratic Iraq to exist. A US build democratic Iraq is a pipe dream.

Sent by Thomas Harris | 2:49 PM ET | 05-17-2007

I am very curious as to what Cheney meant when he stated that the job involved cutting through the bureaucracy.

Sent by Janice | 4:30 PM ET | 05-17-2007

If there is to be a Czar; who is the Rasputin;Cheney'Rove?

Sent by James Hall | 4:43 PM ET | 05-18-2007

I thought the interviews with David Gergen and Leon Panetta were deeply telling and I believe it is Panetta that reiterated the idea that the National Security Advisory (Stephen Hadley) _should_ have no more important task than over-seeing this war. This is more fiddling while Rome burns. And I do feel sad about Gen Lutes. But mostly I feel bad for America because we are, at least for the time being, stuck on this sad carousel.

Sent by Janet | 1:20 PM ET | 05-19-2007

It seems to me that it would lift a major burden from the shoulders of the executive branch if it were to appoint a czar czar.

Sent by Paul Martin | 8:51 PM ET | 05-20-2007

Yeah, there isn't a letter representing "cz" in Russian, per se. They have a letter that's more accurately described as TS, like the middle consonant sound in the phrase "what's up?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A6

In Polish, Tsar should be just "car," with the letter C pronounced as a TS sound. (It's funny how the letter C gets pronounced in different places - I've had my name pronounced Karvin, Tsarvin, Jarvin, Sarvin and Charvin, depending on the border crossing.)

The use of CZ is more of a western European/American intepretation, though it seems to be falling out of favor as more people embrace tsar instead.

Sent by andy carvin | 10:35 AM ET | 05-21-2007