He's also an incompetent..Even the Pres was reduced to imbecilic and irrelevant phrasing when backing him up the other day..Being a "nice guy" is not the top quality we should look for in national leaders. We should demand responsibility and competence. Rummy fails in both cases. He should be fired.
http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson200412230821.asp
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The blame with this war falls not with Donald Rumsfeld. We are more often the problem — our mercurial mood swings and demands for instant perfection devoid of historical perspective about the tragic nature of god-awful war. Our military has waged two brilliant campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. There has been an even more inspired postwar success in Afghanistan where elections were held in a country deemed a hopeless Dark-Age relic. A thousand brave Americans gave their lives in combat to ensure that the most wicked nation in the Middle East might soon be the best, and the odds are that those remarkable dead, not the columnists in New York, will be proven right — no thanks to post-facto harping from thousands of American academics and insiders in chorus with that continent of appeasement Europe.
Out of the ashes of September 11, a workable war exegesis emerged because of students of war like Don Rumsfeld: Terrorists do not operate alone, but only through the aid of rogue states; Islamicists hate us for who we are, not the alleged grievances outlined in successive and always-metamorphosing loony fatwas; the temper of bin Laden's infomercials hinges only on how bad he is doing; and multilateralism is not necessarily moral, but often an amoral excuse either to do nothing or to do bad — ask the U.N. that watched Rwanda and the Balkans die or the dozens of profiteering nations who in concert robbed Iraq and enriched Saddam.
Donald Rumsfeld is no Les Aspin or William Cohen, but a rare sort of secretary of the caliber of George Marshall. I wish he were more media-savvy and could ape Bill Clinton's lip-biting and furrowed brow. He should, but, alas, cannot. Nevertheless, we will regret it immediately if we drive this proud and honest-speaking visionary out of office, even as his hard work and insight are bringing us ever closer to victory.
— Victor Davis Hanson is a military historian and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. His website is victorhanson.com.
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Care to cite an example of his "incompetence"? How 'bout an example of the Pres and his phrasing that offended you so.
You are ignoring or don't realize the President addressed exactly (meaning it was not irrelevant) the unfounded criticism being hurled at Rumsfeld.
Admin Moderator, JackJones, I submit the latter as a newbie troll wannabe. And not a very good one at that. Either that, or this is Chuck Hagel in drag. I leave it to the mod's discretion.