How Rumsfeld Deserves to Be Remembered
America’s worst secretary of defense never expressed a quiver of regret.
In 2006, soon after I returned from my fifth reporting trip to Iraq for , a pair of top aides in the George W. Bush White House invited me to lunch to discuss the war. This was a first; until then, no one close to the president would talk to me, probably because my writing had not been friendly and the administration listened only to what it wanted to hear. But by 2006, even the Bush White House was beginning to grasp that Iraq was closer to all-out civil war than to anything that could
