Rummy "thinks like a futurist and acts like a Neanderthal._

[rodeodance]

I have say--he is right on.


http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/?referrer=email&referrer=email&referrer=email
William M. Arkin on National and Homeland Security

Posted at 09:00 AM ET, 02/21/2006
Rumsfeld's Incomplete Information War

An unfortunate contradiction about Donald Rumsfeld, and a debilitating handicap for America, is that the Secretary of Defense thinks like a futurist and acts like a Neanderthal.

Rumsfeld, it is said, has fabulous intuition and the ability to clearly see a rapidly changing world. Yet for someone who is also credited with being a peerless bureaucratic warrior, the Secretary of America's most important department also just does not display the ability to implement or carry through on his vision.

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But the Secretary also leaves important decisions unmade, leading to a bloated budget and a bifurcated department. For Rumsfeld, the only military that matters is the new, the ad hoc and the agile.

The other military is that old-fashioned, disciplined one that marches in lockstep. Whether it's the entire continent of Europe or a functioning institution and supporting bureaucracy, Rumsfeld dismisses what isn't his as "old."......



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[Roland99]

1. Rumsfeld is a pure ideologist. Poor choice for leading the DoD.

[yurbud]

2. pure businessman--thinking of spending the least to rake in the most

profit.

[tocqueville]

3. Rumsfeld's truth ministery

"We are fighting a battle where the survival of our free way of life is at stake and the center of gravity of that struggle is not simply on the battlefield overseas; it's a test of wills, and it will be won or lost with our publics, and with the publics of other nations," Rumsfeld said at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.

"We'll need to do all we can to attract supporters to our efforts and to correct the lies that are being told, which so damage our country, and which are repeated and repeated and repeated."

"The standard U.S. government public affairs operation was designed primarily to respond to individual requests for information," Rumsfeld says. "It tends to be reactive, rather than proactive -- and it still operates for the most part on an eight hour, five-days-a-week basis, while world events, and our enemies, are operating 24-7, across every time zone. That is an unacceptably dangerous deficiency."

"The enemy is "able to act quickly with relatively few people, and with modest resources compared to the vast -- and expensive -- bureaucracies of western governments."


"our free way of life" is the US corporate classes' way of life, not the way of life of the US or other Western masses (not to talk about the others). His values are light years from any common decency shared by millions of humans from different cultures. And Rummy wants to figh a "new" insurgency (far from being in its last throes) with a more sophisticated and rapid disinformation...

you have been warned...

[cliss]

4. Don RumsFailed

is an old man. I think he's going on 77. Imagine....the entire US military force in his command. This old fool has just discovered that the "enemy is using the Internet". He held a speech last week, where he announced that Al Qaida

He also seems puzzled by the speed of information. He said "lies are spread around the world, in a matter of seconds". Just imagine that.

And this is from a man who does not use email. I think he's just beginning to wake up to the Information Age, and he doesn't like what he sees. He's also confused by it, and his speeches show it. He's also afraid of it, because he doesn't understand it.

Just this week, he's asked Congress for more millions so he can broadcase US propaganda, 24/7, to combat this "unknown terror over Cyberspace". This guy needs to go, and this afternoon. He's a decrepit old fool, and he's taking our US military over a cliff.

[applegrove]

5. Rummy must have wanted a long war. Why he didn't plan for a win.

And then he runs around and says: "oh my, I made a mistake". Well sending in half the troops and ripping up the battle plan of generals isn't a "mistake".

What were Rummy's "new assumptions"?