NYT
WASHINGTON
Donald Rumsfeld is starting to make Robert McNamara look good.
At least McNamara felt sorry at the end for all those lives and limbs lost because of his colossal misjudgments and cretinous refusal to admit mistakes.
“We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose,” a penitent McNamara said.
By contrast, when Diane Sawyer asked Rumsfeld last week if he ever revisited decisions that cost lives, he blandly replied, “Well, you know, in a war, many things cost lives.”
Goodness, gracious, stuff happens.
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