DEFENDING RUMMY

Glenn does his best, but it’s not terribly effective. We are almost two years into a conflict and critical defense weaponry is not available to soldiers who might die needlessly as a result. This is not that complicated. When Rumsfeld said, “you go to war with the Army you have,” he was apparently forgetting that we went to war months and months ago. The fact that soldiers are still unprotected, that we still have too few troops there, that prisoner abuse is still occurring, that the borders are still not even close to being sealed, that the insurgency is still threatening the entire future, that we still haven’t confronted the question of our global manpower needs … well, these issues go to the heart of the question of Rumsfeld’s and Bush’s competence. This is not knee-jerk anti-war sentiment. This is knee-jerk pro-war sentiment. The question of whether we should fight is to me an obvious one. The question of whether Bush and Rumsfeld have a clue what they’re doing is less easily answered. But we sure know they think they’re perfect. And their arrogance has just intensified. Not encouraging.