William Arkin of the Washington Post truthfully stabbed Rummy on his ridiculous comments from this week. I posted this information in open thread but nobody paid attention. I felt I needed to call better attention to his article so I'm posting it via a diary.
Here's a link to his editorial. Link
Arkin hits the mark directly here:
Either Rumsfeld has delivered one of the most important speeches of the modern era, or he's gone crazy.
I think the latter....<snip>
A sampling of some other of his truthful stabs are below the fold.
Arkin believes that Rumsfeld hates America and its military
This is not the first time that Rumsfeld has shown himself to be so out of touch, so contemptuous of America. Rumsfeld as secretary of defense has displayed a contempt from long before 9/11 for anyone who disagrees with him, particularly in his initial wars against those in the uniformed military.
Arkin ponders the possibility of Rumsfeld taking over America. Of course he realizes that Rumsfeld is too incompetent to pull off such a coup:
If I were the conspiratorial type, I'd say Rumsfeld was a particular menace to America because in his view of a monolithic and totalitarian terrorist enemy, and in his analysis of the weakness of American society, he can only come to the messianic conclusion that he indeed needs to takeover the country in order to save it. And this might even be worth speculating about were it the case that Rumsfeld reflected the views of those in the military leadership, or were it the case that Rumsfeld could actually engineer such a coup.
But alas, the secretary would get the intelligence wrong, employ too few troops and send tank columns on thunder runs through Manhattan and Hollywood, prematurely declaring victory and then being befuddled about the American desire to recover and preserve its way of life, which is not the Rumsfeld way.
Arkin implies that many of America's troubles are directly Rummy-related:
This has got an easy answer: World troubles? Rumsfeld is the source of troubles much closer to home.
Read the rest at WAPO at the link posted above the fold.
Rummy apparently hates us for our freedom. What label can we apply to his hatred?