I do not care if the President said "corpse man" once. It is the most trivial complaint than anyone has made about him. He was reading off a teleprompter , most likely without rehearsing it. If he mispronounced "acetaminophen", the doctors would not get upset. If he said Grand Proicks, Pontiac owners would not get upset. This is a very, very stupid issue.
and when I bring it up a single time , you ping pong it back to me ad nausium, this is hardly the presidents worst faux pas , it probably won't make his top two hundred.
Rumsfeld was a fool. The war was useless and a bad idea, and far worse because he had made no coherent plans for how to manage Iraq.
I do not think anyone is going to call Rumsfeld a decent strategist. Al Qaeda has not vanished, Rumsfeld failed to catch Bin Laden, because of the war in Iraq.
He may become the Hero of Stand Up Desk manufacturers, though. There was not one story that did not mention his stupid stand up desks.
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The point here is that smaller force is very Rumsfeldian you cannot mock president Obama for imitating the Rumsfeld he emulates.
Oh wait , that is me that can't do that.
You can't praise President Obama for becoming more like Rumsfeld as you mock Rumsfeld.
Well, yes you can , but do be aware of how funny it really is.
The new Navy does NOT need as many ships. We have more navy than the rest of the world put together. Congress voted to build a carrier group that the Navy said it did not need.
The Navy must have a right number of ships .
There must be a number that allows us to fulfill the treatys we have obliged ourselves to, a right number to surpress piracy and a right number to prevent war.
Less than that right number is wrong , no matter what it is compared with.
This makes it perhaps right to reduce the Navy to the right number to get its job done with a few in harbor or dry dock and a couple of spares to replace battle loss.
BUT here is the point, reducing the Navy to this right number ought to be the responsibility of people who can define well the job the Navy is required to do.
In this our President is woefully deficient.