Knave, Fool, or Both? (We vote for Both)

Via Huffington Post (Arianna's blog):

RUMSFELD: "I think the biggest problem we've got in the country is people don't study history any more. People who go to school in high schools and colleges, they tend to study current events and call it history... There are just too darn few people in our country who study history enough."

From the Washington Post (via Kos):

RUMSFELD: "We do know, of course, that al-Qaeda has media committees. We do know that they teach people exactly how to try to manipulate the media. They do this regularly. We see the intelligence that reports on their meetings. Now I can't take a string and tie it to a news report and then trace it back to an al-Qaeda media committee meeting."

This is crazy talk. Suggestion for Rumsfeld:

• Skip the history classes for Americans. That takes too long, and anyway you should have budgeted for it in 2002.
• Since you know about the al-Qaeda media committees, why not capture some of them and trace back to Bin Laden? Then you could nab him and the other leaders of the group. And the terror threat would be substantially reduced.

Just a sugggestion.


posted by Quiddity at 3/07/2006 10:03:00 PM