"Snowflake" Rumsfeld Is A Little Like Santa
According to recently released White House memos , former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld felt Muslims were lazy layabouts, Iraq and Iran should be always be mentioned in the same sentence, and the Iraq war could be won through embracing a bumper sticker mentality. Man, does Rummy know how to spin Americans!
Always one for cuddly code names, Rummy called the memos "snowflakes," and he let about 40-60 gently drift down daily upon upon the heads of his staff between 2002 to 2006. And unlike real ephemeral crystalline dendra, where each one is just a little different from the other, Rummy's snowflakes mainly instructed staff on how to shape public opinion and gave hawkish notes of inspiration during wartime: "People will rally to sacrifice," he once wrote. "They are looking for leadership. Sacrifice = Victory." So true, Rummy. So true.
But most revealing, perhaps, is his views that excessive oil wealth has detached Muslims "from the reality of the work, effort and investment that leads to wealth for the rest of the world. Too often Muslims are against physical labor, so they bring in Koreans and Pakistanis while their young people remain unemployed," he wrote. "An unemployed population is easy to recruit to radicalism."
Good Lawd, it's nice to have Rummy back from France!