What We Have Going on Amidst the Generals -- Present and Former -- is a Mutiny.

What we have going on amidst the generals, present and former, is a mutiny. It's not an armed one, not yet.

When most Americans think of a mutiny, they think of armed crew members seizing the captain and taking over command of a ship, as in the famed "Mutiny on the Bounty."

But, what we are seeing in the United States is a public rebuke of the commander-in-chief, his vice president and his secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, without an active military revolt as of yet -- although that can't be ruled out.