Hoping The "Snowflake King" Melts Away

This WaPo story tells us that more musings from Don (“The Defense Secretary We No Longer Have”) Rumsfeld have come to light from his time doing the work of going to war with barely a plan in Iraq that has a lot to do with our current catastrophe (a stretch to call that “work,” I’ll admit).

Rummy would inflict “snowflakes” upon his staff and others in the Bush Administration, which were often simple musings or demands of one type or another.…

…(they) shed light on Rumsfeld's brusque management style and on his efforts to address key challenges during his tenure as Pentagon chief. Spanning from 2002 to shortly after his resignation following the 2006 congressional elections, a sampling of his trademark missives obtained yesterday reveals a defense secretary disdainful of media criticism and driven to reshape public opinion of the Iraq war.

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(In one he)…lamented that oil wealth has at times detached Muslims "from the reality of the work, effort and investment that leads to wealth for the rest of the world. Too often Muslims are against physical labor, so they bring in Koreans and Pakistanis while their young people remain unemployed," he wrote. "An unemployed population is easy to recruit to radicalism."

Ignoring for a moment the ugly generalization against Muslims in that excerpt, I would have to say that, yep, it sure is a drag when a nation recruits offshore to bring in workers to that country to perform physical labor, isn’t it?

And it’s also an issue for the incumbent regime when unemployed youth ends up turning out in large numbers to support the opposition party as well (with many in this country thinking the Dems are radicals anyway...too funny).

That Rummy – spot-on as always.

And in other news about literary Repugs (deceased), I saw the other day that Gerald Ford, in a new book, said that he agreed with the Iraq war, but thought Dubya fought it for the wrong reason.

Putting aside my disagreement with that opinion, I’d only add that it would have made a much bigger difference if Ford had said that before he exhaled his last breath.