It pains me to have posted (as I did not long ago in my vanity "WHY WE LOST" published shortly after the election analyzing the loss as primarily a repudiation by the people of the war in Iraq, and of George Bush) that Rumsfeld had to go. It pains me because Rumsfeld is a personal hero of mine whom I admire greatly and who, I believe, was reshaping the Pentagon in a way that will protect my grandchildren. But both Rumsfeld and Bush have lost their moral authority in Iraq and, somehow, the presidency must be protected so that the nation can somehow extricate itself from Iraq without a devastating setback in the war against Islamo fascism. So, Rumsfeld must fall on his sword.
When one surveys the list of options presented by Rumsfeld here, it is dismaying.
