I must say, it’s an interesting thing to watch Rumsfeld spin at the Council on Foreign Relations

I must say, it’s an interesting thing to watch Rumsfeld spin at the Council on Foreign Relations – he’

s quite pathetic really. After all, Rumsfeld is one of the leaders of the Military Industrial

Complex/neoconservative cabal which seized the state’s foreign policy apperatus away from the Pratt

House types after 9/11, and his Iraq project has turned out to be the “greatest strategic disaster in

United States history.”

The speech, “New Realities in the Media Age,” is on the danger of the freedom of information exchange

made possible by satellite TV and the internet. It’s hard to get away with creating enemies and

destroying them when everyone who feels like it can blog your every fascist move. The fact that the

Secretary of Defense worries about the internet worries me.

“The press talks about my Copper Green torture program too much! Traitors! Didn’t I tell you, it’s

all the fault of the night shift?!”

The question and answer section is the most fun. He resorts to the stupid Caliphate myth when asked

whether he’s ever gotten around to figuring out his metrics, claims that the fact Don Imus is having

to raise money for wounded soldiers is no indication that the state is letting them down and that Iran

is a credible threat.