'Shock and awe' or shame and sorrow?

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20041217/cm_usatoday/shockandaweorshameandsorrow&cid=679&ncid=1501

When historians rate our secretaries of Defense of the past century, these two will go down as the worst:

Donald Rumsfeld, currently serving under Republican President George W. Bush.

Robert McNamara, who served under Democrat Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.

McNamara earned his place in infamy by misleading us repeatedly about the ever-escalating war in Vietnam, which we ultimately lost. snip

After we belatedly pulled out of Vietnam, McNamara wrote his confessions in a best-selling book titled In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam.

After Rumsfeld retires, he, too, likely will write a book. Will it be fiction, about how his shock and awe worked out, or will it be non-fiction, confessing to the shame and sorrow he and his cronies have caused us with their ill-advised, poorly planned and ineffectively executed expedition?

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1. Not sure

would Rumsfeld be so ignorant to believe his policies were for the better? Probably, but there is a chance that he may be able to find the truth after a long time. McNamara saw the error in his ways, correct? Perhaps there is a remote chance of Rumsfeld doing the same. Either way, it won't really matter.

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2. I'm guessing the answer is...no.

Rumsfeld, like everyone in the Bush administration, has a heart of stone, cares nothing about anyone or anything and is totally focused on his/their agenda: World domination, whatever it takes and with no regard for who or what gets demolished along the path. The shock and awe is underway and will not stop. The shame and sorrow will never be owned by Rumsfeld, Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, any of them. And before they are done, they will have made sure to rewrite history so that no future generations ever have a shot at knowing the truth.

As Orwell said: Ignorance is Strenth. Slavery is Freedom. War is Peace.

God help us all.