Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Add Bill Kristol to the list against Secretary Rumsfeld

William Kristol (or Bill Kristol, whatever you prefer) writes in the Washington Post:
"As you know, you go to war with the Army you have. They're not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time."
-- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, in a town hall meeting with soldiers at Camp Buehring in Kuwait, Dec. 8.
Actually, we have a pretty terrific Army. It's performed a lot better in this war than the secretary of defense has. President Bush has nonetheless decided to stick for now with the defense secretary we have, perhaps because he doesn't want to make a change until after the Jan. 30 Iraqi elections. But surely Don Rumsfeld is not the defense secretary Bush should want to have for the remainder of his second term...All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments. Some have stubbornly persisted in their misjudgments. But have any so breezily dodged responsibility and so glibly passed the buck...These soldiers deserve a better defense secretary than the one we have.
Bill Kristol is editor of the weekly standard and one of the few Jewish Republicans (Corey, are you listening?). I know this as I know his son through a youth group that I am an alumnus of.

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