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...Secretary of Defense Robert Gates-associated with pragmatic decision makers inside the Administration-has signaled he would like to close Guantanamo. Since replacing Donald Rumsfeld, an architect of the faltering Iraq war, Gates has begun to remake the U.S. military command, replacing key figures associated with failures in Iraq, notably Peter Pace, Rumsfeld's choice to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as well as the Army leader of Central Command, which directs the Iraq theater and its adjacencies...
...That was the headline out of his big foreign policy speech last month at the Council on Foreign Relations. But it's not the real news. "War on terror" is probably on its way out anyway: our allies can't stand the term. Neither can the military. Even Donald Rumsfeld tried to abandon it a couple of years back. It probably won't survive the next Republican Administration, let alone the next Democratic...
...primacy of the Secretary of State is crucial. Since the office of Secretary of Defense was created after World War II, there have been only two who were more powerful than their counterpart at State: Robert McNamara over Dean Rusk in the 1960s and Donald Rumsfeld over Colin Powell in George W. Bush's first term. McNamara and Rumsfeld presided over the wars in Vietnam and Iraq. Indeed, the primacy of Rumsfeld and his patron Dick Cheney has created a deep wound. Their constant undermining of the U.S. intelligence community, the putdowns of "old Europe," their impatience with U.N. inspectors...
...Bush Administration, and particularly the Pentagon, managed the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq. In his memoir, Tenet wrote that two decisions doomed the reconstruction of the country - the demobilization of the Iraqi Army and the de-Baathification of the Iraqi government, both of which were approved by Rumsfeld...
...Such accounts have increased the publishing world's interest in Rumsfeld's side of the story...