The American People Were The Real War Experts  March 04, 1991|By
Mona Charen, (copyright) 1991, Creators Syndicate, Inc.  A
friend, Mark Taifer, calls to say that he now realizes he chose
the wrong profession. ``I spent my working life in business,``
he said, ``where there were consequences for being wrong. You`d
either lose money, or lose your job. I now see that there is a
field where being wrong doesn`t hurt you. I shall tell my
grandchildren to become experts.``  He was referring to the bevy
of political and military types who trooped across our
television screens and op-ed pages throughout the last six
months- some of whom are now so discredited that, by rights,
they ought to lose their title as experts. Edward Luttvak, for
example, universally described as a ``strategist,`` was wildly
wrong about the ground war and the effectiveness of the air
campaign. In an exchange on CNN`s ``The Capital Gang`` in early
February, Luttvak scorned the air war against Iraqi troops,
saying it would never kill large numbe