Thursday, December 20, 2007

The McCaffrey Report on Iraq Status

This is a fascinating and informative report by a retired General and adjunct professor at West Point. Here's one gem among many:

Mr. Rumsfeld was an American patriot, of great personal talent, energy, experience, bureaucratic cleverness, and charisma—who operated with personal arrogance, intimidation and disrespect for the military, lack of forthright candor, avoidance of personal responsibility, and fundamental bad judgment.

Read every word of it.

2 comments:

Sean Meade said...

Tom liked this, too, and is hoping for an important McCaffrey position in a Democratic administration

Paul Stokes said...

That certainly would be a comfort. What he says about the toll on the Army of DOD policies is very alarming.