(Capp often counseled disabled war veterans, citing himself as an example of surmounted misfortunes).
"Yesterday they threw her into the hole after proving what she was," he wrote, "and giving her the counsel of war".
According to the Holocaust museum, after the trials ended, and Mr. Rosenberg was hanged in 1946, Robert M. W. Kempner, a Nuremberg prosecutor, received permission from the office of the chief of counsel of war crimes to keep documents "for purposes of writing, lecturing and study".
And it is the realists who counsel going to war only in defense of the country's vital interests.
There already is talk that King Abdullah may replace the government, as a way of signaling that he received bad counsel on the war.
His client, the former president of Yugoslavia, has not wanted to appoint a counsel in his war crimes trial because he is conducting his own defense.
Schlesinger warned of terrible consequences before the first Gulf War, counselled against intervening in Bosnia by invoking the spectre of a quagmire, and viewed the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001 as a Vietnam-like exercise in futility.
Charles Taylor's lead counsel in his war crimes trial in The Hague has stormed out of court after angry exchanges with the judges, later accusing them of having made up their minds about his client's guilt before the hearing began.
The small second-floor spaces occupied in the West Wing by Mr. Gonzales and his deputy, Timothy Flanigan, are in effect the Bush administration's war counsel offices, the place where national security and military law are sorted out among the White House, the Justice Department and the Pentagon.
For the sake of his health and for the safety of the rest of us, he should take counsel from another war hero, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf: "Any man who doesn't cry scares me a little".
