Most unwanted job ever: Praising
Donald Rumsfeld's body of work
By Andrew Warner
If someone were to tell me my life depended on writing a speech that
showered soon-to-be former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld with
praise, my answer would be simple:
Shoot me now.
Luckily that's not the case. But there's some poor schmuck being
forced to wrap Rumsfeld's six year tenure of garbage in a shimmery
package to show
off at the Pentagon today.
From USA Today:
With an eye on his legacy, Rumsfeld asked to be judged by
the extraordinary nature of today's threat, like none that has come
before.
 Like Rumsfeld, I too realize the world is faced with a threat like
none that has come before. With Rumsfeld's departure at least part of
that threat has been erased. If Democrats would grow a spine and take
advantage of Representative McKinney's parting shot at the Bush
administration (articles of impeachment), we could really wrestle this
new threat to the ground.
As for Rumsfeld's legacy – maybe if that concern had popped into his
head once or twice before he bungled the "War on Terror" by letting
Osama slip through his fingers, ignored and fired generals who pointed
out the errors in his bogus Iraq policy, and generally made the wrong
decisions at every turn, he wouldn't have to worry about the nasty
excerpts that are bound to be put in the history books next to his even nastier perma-scowl.
But the cold reality for Rumsfeld is that his legacy, no matter how
much he begs, is stained beyond repair. And in a few more days he will
quietly hobble out of the national spotlight and his only shot will be
to pray he is forgotten.
Read Andrew Warner's blog by clicking here >
December 15, 2006
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