Rumsfeld Stepping Down

macinrack writes to tell us that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, architect of the unpopular war in Iraq, intends to resign after six stormy years at the Pentagon. Officials said Robert Gates, former head of the CIA, would replace Rumsfeld.

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Re:Good at war, bad at peace

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Welcome to 2006... things need to change.

Nation Building should be our NUMBER ONE priority, using military or not. Maybe we need to start training our boys as diplomats instead of as just gun wielding meat heads. No offense, but that's what the US military wants... meat heads, and it pisses me off. This is what you get when you take a bunch of guys who are trained to hate everyone but themselves, and put them in a position of peace keeping. Either we need a separate "Peace keeping force" more akin to streamlined UN forces, or we need to start respecting our boys and not shitting on them in attempts to get them to hate everyone else... soldiers and officers alike.

But "Nation Building" should no longer be a bad term. If we're going to go in and ruin someone's shit, we've gotta be willing to help rebuild it. It's blatantly refusing to take responsibility for our actions, and I'm tired of hearing it used as a bad word.