A Gold-Plated Title for a Tin Badge Job: Bush Appoints ?War Czar?

"Newest to the pantheon is Lt. Gen. Douglas E. Lute of the Army, named this week to oversee operations in Iraq and Afghanistan ? the so-called war czar ? after several others declined the job. General Lute joins a cast of czars proliferating at all levels of government: Katrina-relief czars, intelligence czars, health care czars, energy czars, AIDS czars and economic czars. 'Whenever we have an intractable problem, we tend to dredge up a czar and they fail,' said the Clinton-era drug czar, Gen. Barry McCaffrey (excepting himself from the failure provision). He praises General Lute as a 'spectacularly good appointment' and then pays him an even more trenchant compliment: 'He ain't no czar'." (NY Times)