Background – Secretary of Defense – Seymour Hersch on the battle between Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon.

Background – Secretary of Defense – Seymour Hersch on the battle between Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon.

• The New Yorker: Offense and Defense

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Rumsfeld is acting an awful lot like Robert McNamara. Against Iraq, that will just make the war harder than it should have been. But if Rumsfeld doesn’t learn from his mistakes and the government goes ahead with attacks on Syria and Iran, things could get very unpleasant for the US soldiers.