[lit-ideas] Re: The US Army in mutiny?
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 22:54:20 -0400
But you're giving Rumsfeld a "pass" until...when?
Oh...about a minute and forty-three seconds.
Until what his enemies say can be put in
perspective. Until the changes he's put in place
can be confidently evaluated.
I consider myself a hawkish liberal Democrat. As
such I think my cause is best served by arguing
how the war may be fought more effectively by a
Democrat. Bashing the Secretary of Defense is
beside the point. If the Democrats can't claim
efficiencies, the bashing will just look like
complaining and they'll lose again.
But still, why do I "honor Rumsfeld with
believing in his veracity"?
First of all, because Rumsfeld is old guard GOP
apparatchik. If he just wanted to cash in, he
could sit it all out on various boards of major
corporations, pulling down huge sums with a
company jet. Look at the man. He's a fossil. He
comes from a more honorable dirty trick segment of
the great Crooked Time that is politics. He wants
to do this. He has all the money he needs, and is
probably reckoning his "legacy" issues.
Second...how much veracity do you really expect?
Why should giving someone a pass be such a big
deal? What is it that's getting "a pass"? Not that
much. Think of Defense Secretaries from McNamara
to Rummy. There are things you know you know and
things you know you don't know, but the things you
don't know that you don't know...
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