Rumsfeld is morally and intellectually confused
Donald Rumsfeld was clapping his yap trap today before a group of veterans, saying war critics suffer from “moral or intellectual confusion” about what it takes to defeat terrorism, and that opposing the war is akin to people who tried to appease the Nazis. Given that a majority of Americans now oppose the war, I suppose that means that most of us are unpatriotic sympathizers of terrorism.
Who is it that war critics are trying to appease? How is the war in Iraq in any way related to the war on terror, except insofar that it has CREATED terrorists by the bucketload where none existed before?
Opposition to the war in Iraq has nothing to do with being tough on terrorism. Nobody is advocating that we expose ourselves to terrorist attack, and nobody is suggesting we not aggressively fight terrorist threats. What war critics contend is that the war in Iraq was wrong and unrelated to terrorism, and in fact makes the nation more vulnerable to terrorism because of the misallocation of resources that could be better spent on security measures.
Rumsfeld’s argument relies on the continuing fallacy that September 11th and Saddam Hussein were linked, when they were not. If you admit they are not linked, as you must given the weight of the evidence, then words like Rumsfeld’s become nothing more than stupid empty rhetoric from an incompetent bureaucrat, and show that he is indeed morally and intellectually confused.
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Well said. It seems increasingly obvious to the American people that we are suffering the loss of both blood and treasure for an enterprise that very few actually think is making us safer and for which we have been offered little more than incompetent management and the justification du jour.
When Osama bin Laden continues to roam free and issue new tapes at will nearly five years after the terrorist attacks he orchestrated, it is our own leadership, Rumsfeld chief among them, who are in point of fact morally and intellectually confused.
You could perhaps count on one hand the number of people in this country who would advocate we not oppose terrorism or the fascism of religious fundamentalists. If it weren’t for the tragedy involved, it would seem comic the extreme contortions that the neocons and their defenders must put themselves through to continue to drink their koolaid.