War Czar? WTF?
‘I don’t think any of the founding fathers looked to the Russian model,’ said James Bovard, a libertarian writer and lecturer whose contemptuous essay in 2000, ‘Ten Thousand Czars,’ made him something of an ‘anti-czar czar.’ Mr. Bovard dismisses the appointment of General Lute as ‘the same old scam that politicians have used for a long time whenever there is a failing policy.’