I guess that is about the best response you could hope to come up with after being smacked. If the soldiers felt the way you do, perhaps you'd have a point. But overall they really don't. Perhaps because they know what's at stake, and they know what's involved in planning, mounting and maintaining combat operations in a variety of theaters.
"Not Applicable" is a response? .... pull your head out of the sand or out of your fourth point of contact. Rumsfeld's plan is just to continue with the emergency ....that is no plan. Rumsfeld's reasoning does not do America justice.