Rummy The Peacenik
When did Martin Walker become an "editor emeritus"? He's not that old—I knew him slightly when I was working on Yugoslavia. Anyhow, if you overlook many of his preconceptions about things he's actually a pretty good reporter. So if Martin says that Rummy and his civilian hirelings are balking at the nightmarish prospects of a US war against Iran, there's probably something to it. And, since both Rummy and Cheney are accomplished bureaucratic knife-fighters it should be a remarkable clash if they start to go at it. My money is on Rummy. Cartoon © Steve Bell (The Guardian), for fair use.
Posted by George Kenney on September 14, 2006 12:15 PM 
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Taking them at face value, assuming Rummy is intelligent, I have to conclude that the disaster in Iraq is working as planned, the desireable outcome.
Futhermore, Daniel Pipes suggested civil war was great, and the Clean Break strategy of Israel originally suggested breaking up these nations. Netenyahu's "Clean Break" was echoed by PNAC, including Rummy, Wolfowitz, Perle, etc.
Rummy had to FIRE many of his top Generals and best advisors, who wanted a Triple-Cheesburger Super-Size War with min. 500,000 to 1 Million troops, in order to wage a Happy Meal War with 150,000 troops, less than the number of police patrolling NYC.
I think this strongly shows INTENT to "FAIL", does it not?
Winning = Ending the War, and you know they do NOT want this "War to last our lifetimes" to end quickly. They also want it to seem difficult and tough for the US to beat up and destroy a nearly bankrupt nation after it suffered 12 years of sanctions so devastating that TWO administrators from the UN (Halliday, Von Sponeck) decided to QUIT, in protest over what they called "genocide".
I feel sorry for patriotic young men, willingly committing themselves to a meatgrinder created and run by ruthless politicians.
Posted by: Gary | October 9, 2006 6:03 AM