JUDAS DUCK DEFENSE SECRETARY, DONALD RUMSFELD

Peggy Noonan, in a recent Wall Street Journal column  called Donald Rumsfeld, “a second rate mind and gutless.”  She was referring to his failure to keep his eye on the ball and kill or capture Osama bin Laden at Tora Bora, when they had him in their sights.  He failed to stay in direct touch with the CIA, and Special Ops on the ground to give them the assistance they needed to finish the job. Donald Rumsfeld called Osama bin Laden, “one man on the run”.  Peggy states “He was not one man on the run. He is the man who just killed almost 3,000 people at the World Trade Center, at the Pentagon, in a field in Pennsylvania.  He’s the reason people held hands and jumped off the buildings.  It is the great scandal of the wars of the Bush era that the U.S. government failed to get him and bring him to justice.  It is the shame of this book that Don Rumsfeld lacks the brains to see it, or the guts to admit it.”  We should honor Peggy Noonan for the guts to speak the truth, and recognize the Judas Duck of the century, Don Rumsfeld.  “The failure to find bin Laden was a seminal moment in the history of the war in Afghanistan.  And it was a catastrophe.  From that moment everything about the Afghanistan war became unclear, unfocused, murky and confused. ” It took a Black president with guts and brain power to keep his eye on the ball, and take the risky and dramatic kill, finishing the job 11 years later.  Donald Rumsfeld, Judas Duck of the century.