Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Dead At 88 By Ben Scheffer
on July 01 2021 6:57 AM Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld testifies during a Senate Foreign Relations hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., June 14, 2012.
Donald Rumsfeld, who served as President George W. Bush s defense secretary during the 2003 Iraq War, died Wednesday in Taos, New Mexico. He was 88.
The cause of death was multiple myeloma.
Rumsfeld had served as President Gerald Ford s secretary of defense from November 1975 to January 1977, making him both the youngest, at age 43, and the oldest, at age 74, to hold the position.
Rumsfeld worked under four presidents. In 1988, he sought the Republican presidential nomination but withdrew before the primaries.
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How Biden viewed the start of America’s post-9/11 wars may inform his future decisions on the use of force. April 21, 2021 10:03 PM ET
The original sin of the war in Iraq was going to war in Iraq. And the original sin of the war in Afghanistan was going to war in Iraq.
In September 2001, when Joe Biden was the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, I was the policy adviser for the stretch of Asia that included Afghanistan. By 9 a.m. on 9/11, I felt certain that al-Qaeda (which was based in Afghanistan) was behind the attacks but that we’d end up invading Iraq anyway.
By Dave Gahary
George Orwell once said, “The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.”
That ominous warning was clearly on display last month when Philip Giraldi one of the heavyweights who has been able to cross the line between the alternative media and the established media was banned from writing for
The American Conservative magazine, where he had been a contributor since its inception, because they didn’t like an article he wrote not for them, but for another publication.
Giraldi, born in New Jersey and educated at the University of Chicago and the University of London, served in U.S. Army intelligence during the Vietnam War and was a CIA operations officer, i.e., agent, for 17 years. Since his time with “the Agency,” Giraldi has been writing for several websites and magazines about national security issues and most particularly about the war on terror.