STOPPED SHORT -- SCHWARZKOPF. That headline in the hawkish Washington Times last week stung President Bush into a mercifully brief but nonetheless unfortunate and ironic tiff with the nation's newest idol. Unfortunate because the White House cast it in terms of who said what to whom when, thus obscuring a genuinely important question: Was the cease-fire Bush ordered after 100 hours of the ground war premature? Ironic, because the White House could easily have won that debate.
The spat started when David Frost interviewed for public television the top allied commander in the gulf. Schwarzkopf said he had recommended that the...
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