DELUSIONAL RUMSFELD:
Last weekend, Newsweek editor Fareed Zakaria warned that Rumsfeld "seems literally in a parallel universe and slightly deranged . If you listen to what he said last week about Iraq, he's living in a different world, not a different country."
Yesterday's hearing provided fresh examples of Rumsfeld's delusions. “If we left Iraq prematurely,” he said, “the enemy would tell us to leave Afghanistan and then withdraw from the Middle East. And if we left the Middle East, they’d order us and all those who don’t share their militant ideology to leave what they call the occupied Muslim lands from Spain to the Philippines.” Echoing the faulty domino theory applied to the Vietnam war, Rumsfeld said America would ultimately be forced “to make a stand nearer home .”
The New York Times writes Americans want "some assurance that the administration has a firm grasp on reality and has sensible, achievable goals that could lead to an end to the American involvement in Iraq with as little long-term damage as possible. Instead, Mr. Rumsfeld offered the same old exhortation to stay the course, without the slightest hint of what the course is, other than the rather obvious point that the Iraqis have to learn to run their own country."
USA Today also charred the defense secretary, saying, "Americans deserve a strategy based on the reality of a changing situation , not political rhetoric that costs lives and prolongs an illusion." Sen. Clinton yesterday called on Rumsfeld to resign , echoing a call previously made by a host of military generals . "The secretary has lost credibility with the Congress and with the people," she said. "It's time for him to step down and be replaced by someone who can develop an effective strategy and communicate it effectively to the American people and to the world."
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