KevinNYC
03-28-2014, 12:46 AM
Mentioned this in another thread, but we're going to be reminded in the next several weeks of how big a dick Donald Rumsfeld was. Errol Morris has a documentary coming out April 4th.
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Came across this review of Gen Hugh Shelton's book about working with Rumsfeld. (http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/10/11/general_shelton_rumsfeld_was_the_devil_in_the_form _of_a_defense_secretary)
It was the worst style of leadership I witnessed in 38 years of service.
"The McNamara-Rumsfeld model," as Shelton calls it, was "based on deception, deceit, working political agendas, and trying to get the Joint Chiefs to support an action that might not be the right thing to do for the country but would work well for the President from a political standpoint."
After his first meeting with Rumsfeld, Shelton recalls thinking, "We're going to need some heavy-duty cleaning supplies if all we're going to do is waste time having pissing contests like this."
At one point, Rumsfeld utterly rejected a plan for how to deal with Iraqi attacks on U.S. warplanes in the old "no-fly zones." Shelton liked the plan how it was, so when ordered to revamp it, he let it sit on his desk for a couple of weeks, and then sent it back to the defense secretary with a new label on it: "Rumsfeld Auto-Response Matrix." "He loved every word of it," Shelton reports with unconcealed contempt.
http://www.thereelword.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/the-unknown-known-poster-691x1024.jpg
Came across this review of Gen Hugh Shelton's book about working with Rumsfeld. (http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/10/11/general_shelton_rumsfeld_was_the_devil_in_the_form _of_a_defense_secretary)
It was the worst style of leadership I witnessed in 38 years of service.
"The McNamara-Rumsfeld model," as Shelton calls it, was "based on deception, deceit, working political agendas, and trying to get the Joint Chiefs to support an action that might not be the right thing to do for the country but would work well for the President from a political standpoint."
After his first meeting with Rumsfeld, Shelton recalls thinking, "We're going to need some heavy-duty cleaning supplies if all we're going to do is waste time having pissing contests like this."
At one point, Rumsfeld utterly rejected a plan for how to deal with Iraqi attacks on U.S. warplanes in the old "no-fly zones." Shelton liked the plan how it was, so when ordered to revamp it, he let it sit on his desk for a couple of weeks, and then sent it back to the defense secretary with a new label on it: "Rumsfeld Auto-Response Matrix." "He loved every word of it," Shelton reports with unconcealed contempt.