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May 14, 2008

Lunch With Donald Rumsfeld

As part of their story on TV military analysts, the New York Times pried an incredible amount of crap loose from the Defense Department. Amongst the crap was a recording of a 2006 lunch with Donald Rumsfeld and many of the analysts. Jfxgillis at Newsvine has listened to the whole hour, and excerpted the best parts.

Among the highlights are Donald Rumsfeld sadly stating that Nouri al-Maliki doesn't measure up to South Korean fascist Syngman Rhee. This kind of digging is exactly what I think bloggs should be doing, so I highly recommend it.

(via Avedon Carol)

—Jonathan Schwarz

Posted at May 14, 2008 12:58 AM
Comments

Don's a man who KNOWS who he likes in a fascist dictator.

Posted by: Mike Meyer at May 14, 2008 02:32 AM

Other than Hitler, have the Very Serious People ever met a fascist they didn't like?

Seems not...

Posted by: Turkey Turkey Turkey at May 14, 2008 05:05 AM

Jonathan:

Thanks for the link!

That Syngman Rhee comment by Rumsfeld really seemed to strike a chord for a lot of people; I'm getting more feedback on that than anything else.

Posted by: jfxgillis at May 14, 2008 06:06 AM

I've actually read a Chinese historian who didn't even like Syngman Rhee, rather, he was an admirer of Park Chung Hee.

Donny can't even get his strongmen right, it seems.

Posted by: En Ming Hee at May 14, 2008 12:39 PM

FYI, you misspelled "blogs".

Posted by: John Caruso at May 14, 2008 01:19 PM

John Caruso -
Shhhhhh! Don't say that word here! You'll upset the host.....

Posted by: Aaron Datesman at May 14, 2008 02:42 PM

You mean "FYI"? Yeah, I hate that one too—especially on blogs! I don't know what possessed me to use such a hackneyed corporate acronym on such a fine blog. It won't happen again, Tiny blog!

Posted by: John Caruso at May 14, 2008 03:19 PM