Well I would imagine that stop loss sucked yeah but as you said it probably doesn't have a lot to do with the sec. of defense. (besides it's been utilized in many conflicts before)
What I'm on about is that he (Rumsfeld) managed to piss off the military staff around him enough to be called to resign by multiple people due to his apparantly abysmal military planning.
What Mike Jackson had to say about him was, for me personally, most convincing;
In a September 2007 interview with The Daily Telegraph, General Mike Jackson, the head of the British army during the invasion, criticised Rumsfeld's plans for the occupation as "intellectually bankrupt," adding that Rumsfeld is "one of those most responsible for the current situation in Iraq," and that he felt that "the US approach to combating global terrorism is 'inadequate' and too focused on military might rather than nation building and diplomacy."
The man must've been really completely brash & undiplomatic to fuck up his relations with everyone around him, not only his own military staff but his most important allies as well.
Last edited by Shocking (2011-07-03 13:46:18)