With the departure of chief editor Bill Emmott, the stubbornly wrong-headed pro-Iraq-war position of The Economist seems to be changing, and evidence of this is their call for the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld in the current issue. Clearly, Rumsfeld's damage control efforts have failed if the editors of one of the most respected news weeklies in the world, and one of the few that backed his misadventure in Iraq, are calling for his head.
As the Economist points out in their article on Rumsfeld's failures, it does no good to build an efficient smash-and-grab military machine if you cannot pacify and rebuild a conquered nation. Rumsfeld's "transformation" monomania simply lost touch with the reality that miliary forces serve political purposes. They are not ends in themselves.