Dave wrote:

Typically simplistic approach. Anyone with a trace of the ability to read
between the lines will realize that "his generals" were seriously split as
to what changes, if any, to make as a result of the collapse of the CSU.
Some remained mired in the Powell doctrine even in a very different world
from what Powell envisioned. Others thought some rethinking was in order.
Rumsfeld sided with the rethinkers, and generals on the losing side retired
or were retired, becoming presidential candidates or consultants to the big
3 networks where they could continue to urge their lost cause.

Typical self-contradictory "neoconservative" approach.

The fact that the naysayers were proven right in every particular seems to be
totally irrelevant, doesn't it?

DSK