Pax Americana

Wed Apr 11, 2007 6:44AM EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House wants to appoint a high-profile overseer to manage the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but has had trouble finding someone to take the job, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.

At least three retired four-star generals approached by the White House in recent weeks have turned down the position, the report said.

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COMMENT: If he had a horse, as did Caligula, he would declare him Proconsul and shower him with Presidential Metals of Freedom.

How will we ever repair the damage to our country?

This is not Rome. This is not Czarist Russia. This is not even the old British Empire. This is the democratic republic of the United States --- although many of us have stopped acting like it.