I like him and will miss his gruff disdain for stupid questions from the news media. I hope he just got tired of wearing the bullseye, rather than Bush caving to the hysterical and getting rid of him, but we’ll know what happened in time.
Meanwhile, there’s a good postmortem on him and the elections by military historian VDH.
Rumsfeld, VDH says, "Tried to take a top-heavy Pentagon and prepare it for the wars of the postmodern world, in which on a minute’s notice thousands of American soldiers, with air and sea support, would have to be sent to some god-awful place to fight some savagery—and then be trashed live on CNN for doing it."
UPDATE Rummy spoke today at Kansas State U.
"As we look back on those critical years during the Cold War, so too our grandchildren will one day look back on this time as a defining moment in America’s history. History will judge whether we did all we could to defeat a vicious extremist enemy that threatened our security, our freedom, our very way of life. Or, if we left it to the next generations to try to fight an enemy strengthened by our weakness, and emboldened by our lack of resolve."
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