Word: rumsfeldism
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...anything, the American public has shown itself more willing than the government to confront the implications of Iraq's bloody spring. When he invaded Iraq with barely four divisions last year, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld wasn't just trying to win a war; he was trying to make a point--that the U.S.'s post--cold war Army could do more with less and do it better and faster. That proved right as far as the invasion went, but occupying the country was a different matter entirely. "The notion that with [about] 130,000 troops, we have sufficient numbers...
...rest of the brass got the message. A year later, junior officers are no longer holding their tongues. "He wants to wage a war consistent with this fantasy of what a war is rather than what it is in reality," an Army officer at the Pentagon says privately of Rumsfeld. "It's this bulls___ notion that you can have an efficient military instead of an effective...
...sure, I have no great longing for poodle skirts or leather jackets—I’ve never even watched Grease in its entirety. I don’t miss the cold war nearly as much as Donald Rumsfeld (in fact, despite all its troubles, I rather prefer the post-cold war era). I don’t like hanging out in diners; I think tailfins on cars look silly; and I think Elvis songs are irritating...
...sure, I have no great longing for poodle skirts or leather jackets—I’ve never even watched Grease in its entirety. I don’t miss the cold war nearly as much as Donald Rumsfeld (in fact, despite all its troubles, I rather prefer the post-cold war era). I don’t like hanging out in diners; I think tailfins on cars look silly; and I think Elvis songs are irritating...
...Still, the Bush administration appears to be in crsisis-management mode over Iraq rather than committed to a clear policy, and it's not yet a safe bet that the administration hawks around Cheney and Rumsfeld won't push back against the plan to put the UN's man in charge of shaping Iraq's interim government. Nor is the Iraqi Governing Council, whose dissolution Brahimi is recommending, will go quietly. Some, like Chalabi, whose limited political influence in Iraq appears to be entirely dependent on the favor he enjoyed in Washington and his ability to parlay that among other...