[BenR2]

Perhaps Rumsfeld wants to pluck Schoomaker from retirement because he knows that, in this new world, they need to learn how to be both.

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No grunt should be expected to be a "diplomat."

His job is too charge machine gun nests -- even if it kills him.

Yes, Special Forces are required to be diplomats in uniform.

Once again, class, repeat after me: The Army is MORE than simply SPECIAL FORCES. (But, does RUMMMY understand this?)

[Happy2BMe]

I attribute our historical successes in Iraq at least as much to General Tommy Franks as I do to Rumsfeld.