A Rumsfeld memo was leaked today to the press, and Rumsfeld is none too happy about it Who could blame him? The memo gave the public something that this administration has been unable to do since Bush's inauguration, which is to give us some truth. The New York Times reports that Rumsfeld acknowledges, "It is pretty clear that the coalition can win in Afghanistan and Iraq in one way or another, but it will be a long, hard slog." Rumsfeld might have tried to deny that it was his memo, but as soon as reporters in D.C. saw the word slog, they had to have known it was authentic Rumsfeld.
It is clear that we finally got some well needed truth out of this leaked memo, but we also got, what I think to be an extremely scary admission, "We have not yet made truly bold moves, although we have made many sensible, logical moves in the right direction, but are they enough?" What! You have not made any bold moves. If Rumsfeld does not think that the doctrine of preemption, or going to war unilaterally while lying to sway public opinion, is not bold then I shutter to think what it is he would characterize as bold.
(Is it just me, or does his face just get scarier and scarier every time new words come out of it? Have you seen his teeth? I wouldn't doubt that he chews children with those mashers. OK, maybe not, but i'll bet he wouldn't object to watching someone else do it.)