Global Financial Warriors also shows, contrary to liberal myth, just how engaged President Bush has been throughout this war. Taylor, who attended hundreds of meetings in the White House Situation Room, writes:

“I was never at an NSC meeting where President Bush did not run it in an intelligent, businesslike way, starting and ending on time, encouraging discussion, keeping people at ease, using humor when appropriate, listening carefully, asking penetrating questions, getting to the heart of the matter, making the decisions, and giving the commands.”

There’s a good reason that Taylor’s efforts met with success -- a reason that offers a way to improve government at all levels and in all departments: Taylor (like his boss, President Bush) demanded accountability. “What gets measured gets done,” he notes. This doesn’t mean micro-managing; indeed, he writes, “I always advocated a management philosophy in which people should tell their subordinates what needs to be done and not how to do it.”

As John Taylor put it as he launched his book tour at The Heritage Foundation, “We need a cadre of financial warriors.” And, I would add, a man of Taylor’s caliber to lead them. Then we’ll truly be doing “all we can” to win the war -- and spread the benefits and blessings of liberty far and wide.