Too Many Chiefs?

U.S. Commander in Afghanistan Is Given More Leeway - NYTimes.com

The new commander over Afghan rugs has a hand-picked team of team, friends of his apparently. That's cool. No problems there.

On the civilian front, however, you have an ambassador, with 3 assistant ambassadors who have been ambassadors in various other countries. That likely means there's going to be a lot of disagreements, to the point that I'd really be surprised if at least one of them didn't leave within a year. If the Afghan rug ambassador, the chief of the chiefs, is a good manager though, then that's a different story... in that he's a manager and the others are doing the work. So... yeah, whatever. We'll see how long it lasts.

But ya never know, the Manhattan Project was a collaboration of "chiefs" so to speak, and even though there was chaos and fighting between them, it apparently was controlled enough to where they worked out the most destructive weapon ever. So, yeah, maybe a similar collaboration can work in the reverse too... if controlled properly.