“The intelligence community has imperfect visibility.” That’s Secretary of Defense Donald
Rumsfeld assessing U.S. confusion on the terrorist threats in Iraq, as quoted today in The
New York Times. Doncha love the way he slaughters the language? He doesn’t just drain it
of meaning, he sucks the life out of it. And how about his judgment on
security in Iraq? “It seems to me that the trajectory we’re on is a good one.” Must we
tolerate much more of his gibberish? To call it lying would be charitable. If
only Evelyn Waugh were still around.
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