"PJ O'Donovan" wrote in message
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> Krauthammer vs. Dowd on Rumsfeld
> Posted by JOHN MCINTYRE | E-Mail This | Permalink | Email Author
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> Charles Krauthammer on Rumsfeld's legacy from last night's roundtable
> on FOX's Special Report with Brit Hume:
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> The person who had the stature and experience to go after the
> entrenched bureaucracy of the military and to want to change it to be
> more light and adaptable, and that is a process that will be remembered
> as a very big positive.
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> Secondly, he's the man who gave us these amazingly swift victories to
> defeat and destroy enemy regimes in Afghanistan and Iraq with an
> economy and a swiftness nobody would ever have expected.
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> Remember also, we've gone five years without a terrorist attack. And
> all of this is his legacy. Of course, obviously, is the stalemate in
> Iraq, the decisions that were made early on, that were hard decisions,
> some of them in retrospect were not right. But Iraq is still in play
> and those who say his legacy is written on Iraq, I think are wrong. I
> think we're going to see how it turns out.
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> Maureen Dowd in today's New York Times.
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> James Baker ran after W. with a butterfly net for a while, but it is
> now clear that the inmates are still running the asylum.
> The Defiant Ones came striding from the Pentagon yesterday, the troika
> of wayward warriors marching abreast in their dark suits and power
> ties. W., Rummy and Dick Cheney were so full of quick-draw confidence
> that they might have been sauntering down the main drag of Deadwood.
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> Far from being run out of town, the defense czar who rivals Robert
> McNamara for deadly incompetence..... the septuagenarian who arrogantly
> dismissed initial advice to send more troops to secure Iraq.
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> Just imagine the send-off a defense secretary would have gotten who
> hadn't sabotaged the Army, Iraq, global security, our chance to get
> Osama, our moral credibility, the deficit and American military
> confidence.
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> I suspect the history books 50 years from now will find Krauthammer
> closer to the truth.
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Not if the insurgents get their way, first Iraq, next America.
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