Blogcritics: Comments on Rough Going For Rummie

Comment by Tim Hall

Sun, 19 Dec 2004 12:34:53 EST

Wrong Haig, Eric. I was referring to the British commander of World War One.

Comment by Eric Olsen

Sun, 19 Dec 2004 11:53:36 EST

I'm not going that far, just saying his time may have come and gone. It's perhaps time for someone a bit more publicly circumspect. And the dreaded Haig was "Al"

Comment by Tim Hall

Sat, 18 Dec 2004 15:03:45 EST

an indication that a fundamental line had been crossed: that Rumsfeld had gone from being perceived as perhaps overly glib but calm and in control, to being perceived as cavalier, callous and unwilling to accept responsibility. Liberals have been saying that from the start. It goes back beyond Abu Graib, back as far as the looting and anarchy in the immediate aftermath of the fall of Bagdhad. Perhaps back even as far as his ridiculous bull-in-a-china-shop tour of Europe before the war started that did so much to piss of potential allies. It's only now that conservatives and crypto-conservatives are starting to wake up and smell the coffee. If (as seems increasingly likely), the Iraqi adventure ends in humiliating defeat for the US (and a major boost for Islamofascism) it will the Rumsfeld's incompetance that will be largely to blame. The Earl Haig of the early 21st century.

Comment by Phillip Winn

Sat, 18 Dec 2004 14:17:47 EST

Eric, only the most recent post by a given author shows up in that box, and you posted another post an hour later which knocked this one out.

Comment by SFC Ski

Sat, 18 Dec 2004 12:35:45 EST

I am waiting to see what the White House puts out about all this; no matter what his cabinet and appointees do, Pres. Bush is ultimately the man who signs off on the plan. Sec Rumsfeld is the right man to break the DOD out of its Cold War mentality, and as such should continue to do that job, but Sec Rumsfeld, should really levae the war planning and warfighting to the generals and back them up with what they need. "The Army you have" was actually built before this administration, and M1 Abrams tanks and F-22's are much sexier than up-armored HMMWv's and supply trucks, that's why we buy them. Rumsfeld is right that we can't always wait until we have the right stuff to do the job, but he is wrong to tell us something we don't know insead of saying it's a problem that is being fixed.

Comment by Eric Olsen

Sat, 18 Dec 2004 12:04:48 EST

hey Phillip, why didn't/doesn't this post show up in the Fresh 5 box?