| Not so much a change in strategy for Rummy.
He's never accepted responsibility for his actions, so he's certainly not about to start now. Yet he's run out of people and "unknown knowns" and "goodness gracious" hand wringing.
Maybe the only thing left for him to do, the only one left for him to blame, is God. Which is ironic considering that's who Rummy seems to think he is. Maybe it’s his belief in God that led to insufficiently supplying our troops with necessary armor, that forced his hand not to plan an exit strategy, or for the insurgency or roadside bombs or sectarian violence or the genocidal loss of life or the billions of dollars in spending or the failure to create anything remotely close to a democracy in Iraq. (Just as during Saddam’s reign, new reports tell us that the current Iraqi government has outlawed any criticism of its leaders; it has, in fact, written this into the new constitution. Journalists are summarily being jailed, beaten, tortured and murdered for reporting the truth or expressing an opinion that runs counter to the puppet government set up by this White House -cough, cough – er, I mean elected by their people.)
Do we need any further proof that Gen. Peter Pace's pack of pickled opinions on the war’s progress cannot be trusted? His creepily fascistic words about his boss are eerily reminiscent of the kind of idolatry lavished on Hitler by his generals, who, similarly, were motivated by two overarching factors: their will to promote a unified vision, no matter how wrong, and their individual desire to do whatever necessary to remain in good graces with their superiors.
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