How #Rumsfeld Deserves to Be Remembered

source: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/06/how-donald-rumsfeld-deserves-be-remembered/619334/

He faxed pages from a biography of #CheGuevara to a U.S. Army officer in the region to prove that the growing Iraqi #resistance did not meet the definition of an #insurgency. He dismissed the insurgents as “dead-enders” and humiliated a top general who dared to call them by their true name. He insisted on keeping the number of U.S. troops in Iraq so low that much of the country soon fell to the insurgency. He focused his best effort on winning bureaucratic wars in #Washington.

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