The Best-We’ve-Got-Right-Now-for-You Generation
“You go to war with the army you have,” is the best response Donald Rumsfeld could muster when questioned – by the troops themselves – why the army doesn’t have all the equipment it needs in Iraq. Sorry, but that’s the answer you give when you’re the army fighting defense, not offense, and as someone who grew up in the Second World War, he ought to know that. In that war, we built up the military and kept building until the war was over. In fact, we were building and shipping for the allies before we even joined in. This time, we didn’t plan, we haven’t executed well, and it’s the soldiers on the ground who suffer. Meanwhile, you won’t hear a lot about this from the conservative commentators around, at least not until they can figure out a way to keep Rumsfeld the “best Secretary of Defense . . . ever.” They just don’t get it, do they?