Christmas in November continues for the reality-based community: Along with recent editorials in the Army Times, the Dem’s Election 2006 takeover claims another high-profile GOP victim in Donald Rumsfeld. He’ll be replaced by former CIA chief Robert Gates — an old papa Bush hand and current member of the Baker-Hamilton commission — for Dubya’s last two lame duck years. Dubya claimed in his press conference that Rumsfeld would’ve been gone regardless of the election returns…I’m not sure I buy that. Still, this is a very welcome move — one that should’ve happened years ago.
McNamara was a destructive failure and Rumsfeld
was nothing more than a carbon copy of McNamara’s set of ideas… yet they allowed him to go the distance with the same failed thinking? What madness.
I was going to bring up McNamara here, but at least McNamara recognized on his way out in ’67 that his policies were a failure. Rumsfeld has exhibited no such self-awareness.
I don’t care how much contrition McNamara showed after the war what counts is what he did during it and his mistakes are identical to Rummys.