The World According to Melvin Laird
What an interesting rebuttal Karl Rove mounted to the current flap over Donald Rumsfeld’s ability or lack thereof to run the Pentagon.
84 year old Melvin Laird dragged out of mothballs, Nixon’s Secretary of Defense before Nixon got shamed out of office, something in today’s ambiguous world that seems an act of simpler times. Is it possible we used to have some degree of moral power over our elected presidents and co-conspirators?
One can imagine the call to arms.
Mel, Donald needs you. Mel, wake up, you remember Donald Rumsfeld, the guy Nixon had around all the time. What? No, Bob Pursley will write it, Mel, just say he’s doing a fine job. No, not Pursley, Rumsfeld, Mel. Get your head together.
So goes the reach back to a discredited administration to shore up a discredited administration. What goes ‘round, comes ‘round.
Laird’s op-ed piece is appropriately titled, Why Are They Speaking Up Now? and asserts the “retired general officers who have recently called for the resignation of Defens…