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Wednesday, December 08, 2004

Donald Rumsfeld, Zen master

Rumsfeld was in Iraq this week and in a rare Q&A with the troops, was asked this question:
"Why do we soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to up-armor our vehicles?" Shouts of approval and applause arose from the estimated 2,300 soldiers who had assembled to see Rumsfeld.

The Secretary of Defense's answer?

"You go to war with the Army you have," Rumsfeld replied, "not the Army you might want or wish to have."

...What's more, he said, armor is not the savior some think it is.

"You can have all the armor in the world on a tank and a tank can (still) be blown up," he said.

This from the man who wanted the smarter, smaller, faster army. Now it's, ahhh, you do what you can. He truly is a Zen master.

posted by chris at 3:50 PM
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