And what's best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the secretary of defense.
Now, the Clinton-Gore team appears to have learned its lesson about Don Rumsfeld.
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Imagine Don Rumsfeld or Henry Kissinger declaring that they took a policy job in which they could not make policy.
Bad appointments (Don Rumsfeld, Mike Brown and the near disaster of Harriet Miers) and poor communication skills prevented a higher grade.
So essentially it doesn't really matter whether it's Don Rumsfeld at the top or if it's Bob Gates at the top?
Mr. KAGAN: Well, let me just add that it also looks a lot like the ideas of Don Rumsfeld, which I've been arguing against for the past three years.
This currently seems not only conceivable but even likely, despite opposition from four Republican Secretaries of Defense--Caspar Weinberger, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld and Jim Schlesinger (whose especially trenchant testimony is extracted nearby).
But, it is nonsense that Don Rumsfeld bears exclusive responsibility for our problems or that changing this horse in war's midstream will do other than complicate the military's role at a critical juncture.
Mr. THOMPSON: I don't know how long Mr. Rumsfeld intends to stay but I do know this - he's not going to leave under fire.
"We don't plan to function as an occupier, " Rumsfeld said.
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"The way that history works, you don't get a lot of credit for what didn't happen, " Cheney says, referring to Rumsfeld's departure.
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