A little bit more than patriotism. A little bit lower than jingoism. --- Nirendra Dev
Wednesday, July 7, 2021
Life and times of Donald Rumsfeld : Is there a lesson for India ?
However, Rumsfeld was an unrepentant protagonist of history.
In retrospect, analysts now say, Rumsfeld and his President George W Bush are linked and responsible for creating a ‘defiant’ Iran and also giving the world a disastrous and ugly face of Islamic terror called ISIS.
The torture memo signed by Rumsfeld on Feb 2, 2002 had said the US soldiers could torture those held for ’20-hour interrogations, removal of clothes and the use of phobias’.
In effect Rumsfeld represented a mindset of the time. A Harris Poll in November 2001 – of course before the 2003 Iraq invasion – had given him an approval rating of 78 per cent.
Dumsfeld’s one-liners would make delicious reading and also are thought provoking.
“Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war” – on large scale killings in Afghanistan
## Once he also tried to shut down critics saying – “If you are not criticised, you may not be doing much”.
He did not surprise friends and foes and remarked: “If it were a fact, it would not be called intelligence”.
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