Folks,

Rumsfeld may have been the right guy to have as SecDef in 2000 because we needed someone then who could "shake the tree" at the Pentagon and thus shake loose all the deadwood there that had accumulated during the 1990's. That was then. This is now.

I don't think Rumsfeld was the guy to have as SecDef in the post-9/11 world. He was too wedded ( Read more... )