[lbo-talk] Rumsfeld: swords are drawn, but why?

[Dwayne Monroe]

Apparently, it's now fashionable for even the most sinister of 
characters to denounce Donald Rumsfeld, a man who, only moments ago it 
seemed, was hailed as the greatest managerial genius since, well, the 
last one.

While driving home, I listed to National Public Radio interviews with 
William Kristol and a sound bite of Trent Lott - both going on at some 
length about the many failures of Secretary Rumsfeld.

If you point your browser here --

<http://news.google.com/news?q=rumsfeld&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official_s&sa=N&tab=nn&oi=newsr 

 >

you'll be able to read article after article - suddenly appearing like 
flashes of lightning - discussing the knives drawn against Rumsfeld.

To me, all of this recent dagger tossing is odd and difficult to pin 
down.  Nothing's new about Rumsfeld's failures - even from an 
imperialist point of view he's a mess - so why now?  Why this listing of 
stuff everyone (or at least, everyone who's paying attention) must have 
known for many months?  And why so many attacks from Legion of Doom 
members like Lott and Kristol?

Or, to put it another way, why's he suddenly appearing so vulnerable 
that he's even receiving fire from parts of his own political base?

.d.