The amoral world of Donald Rumsfeld
‘He’s never reflected deeply enough to actually consider whether what he’s saying is the truth or a lie.’ Errol Morris on Donald Rumsfeld,
Long before the depressing age of post-truth was upon us, and the Trump administration celebrated and gloried in degrading egg head expertise, one individual was making a habit of it. The late Donald Rumsfeld (pictured right), twice US Secretary of Defense, a Fortune 500 CEO, and congressman for three terms, did not let evidence and the firmness of facts trouble him. If he had a cause to pursue he would. Morality was merely an impediment to service.
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On the morning of September 11, 2001, Donald Rumsfeld ran to the fire at the Pentagon to assist the wounded and ensure the safety of survivors, expressed a mournful George W. Bush in a statement. For the next five years, he was in steady service as a wartime secretary of defense – a duty he carried out with strength, skill, and honor.
Long before Donald Trump took aim at irritating facts and dissenting eggheads, Donald Rumsfeld, two times defense secretary and key planner behind the invasion of Iraq in 2003, was doing his far from negligible bit. When asked at his confirmation hearing about what worried him most when he went to bed at night, he responded accordingly: intelligence. The danger that we can be surprised because of a failure of imagining what might happen in the world.