[lbo-talk] Rummy

[Brad DeLong]

>Ted Winslow wrote:
>
>>Doug quoted Rumsfeld:
>>
>>>>"It is a fundamental misunderstanding to see those images over 
>>>>and over and over again of some boy walking out (of a building) 
>>>>with a vase and say 'Oh my goodness you didn't have a plan' -- 
>>>>That's nonsense," he told reporters.
>>
>>Does anyone know if Rumsfeld's "plan" - he frequently mentions that 
>>all the possible consequences have been predicted and planned for - 
>>is an application of "game theory" as, I take it, is implied by his 
>>enthusiasm for the RMA?
>
>Maybe they want Iraq in chaos, a totally broken & humiliated 
>society. That's what a lot of the American elite wanted for the FSU.
>
>Doug

Nobody I ever talked to (save Zbigniew Brzezinski). Everyone else was 
(and is) terrified at the prospect of a Weimar Russia...

Brad DeLong