Stay and finish the job

Ehsan Ahrari says that pushing for a Rummy resignation is a stupid move, since an ouster would conveniently deflect responsibility for the Iraq mess from President Bush.

"Rumsfeld should stay put," he writes, "and play a major role in paving conditions for America's eventual withdrawal from Iraq. Hounding him out of office is likely to create a bitter debate - if Iraq indeed ends up as a failure of America's foreign policy - that such a reality emerged largely because Rummy was not allowed to remain in office and finish his job."