A CALL TO FIRE ROBERT GATES: “Gates is supposed to retire soon. If the president had the gumption he’d accelerate that departure date. For otherwise, how are we to know the president, not Gates, is running the show?” Well, that’s an easy one: Wait to see how Libya turns out. If it goes well, it was the President running the show. If not, it was Gates.

UPDATE: A reader emails: “Perhaps a billboard with Don Rumsfeld’s picture saying Miss Me Yet?”