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04-17-2006, 10:05 AM
A SUPERIOR TOUGH BASTARD
By: Geoff Metcalf
"Men of strenuous minds and high ideals come forward.... The attacks they sustain are more cruel than the collision of arms.... Friends desert and despise them.... They stand alone...." --Woodrow Wilson
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is a strong personality, tasked (among other things greater and lesser) with managing a puzzle palace full of strong personalities and huge egos.
‘No plan survives first contact.’ And hindsight is always 20/20.
Currently an excrement storm is swirling around the SecDef as a few retired General officers are grousing that their former boss should be pink slipped.
President Bush is standing fast with his guy and says Rumsfeld has his full support and that Rummy’s leadership was "exactly what is needed at this critical period."
Notwithstanding the Presidents support, a small collection of perfumed princes have taken umbrage with Don’s management style and leadership. Hey, even before 9/11, everyone knew Don Rumsfeld could be a s.o.b. Fortune magazine had listed him as one of America’s toughest bosses…before he took over the Pentagon.
It is axiomatic that an alpha dog like Rumsfeld would p.o. other alpha dogs in uniform…and he did/does.
Rumsfeld was a wresting champ in high school and at Princeton. He was a navy pilot, congress critter, U.S. ambassador to NATO, chief of staff for Gerald Ford and then Ford’s Secretary of Defense. He was CEO of Fortune 500 companies and always, an effective, superior tough bastard.
Prior to ascending to SecDef, his plans for morphing the Pentagon into a leaner meaner, more efficient entity had institutional bureaucrats apoplectic.
In Full
Ether Zone (http://www.etherzone.com/2006/metc041706.shtml)
By: Geoff Metcalf
"Men of strenuous minds and high ideals come forward.... The attacks they sustain are more cruel than the collision of arms.... Friends desert and despise them.... They stand alone...." --Woodrow Wilson
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is a strong personality, tasked (among other things greater and lesser) with managing a puzzle palace full of strong personalities and huge egos.
‘No plan survives first contact.’ And hindsight is always 20/20.
Currently an excrement storm is swirling around the SecDef as a few retired General officers are grousing that their former boss should be pink slipped.
President Bush is standing fast with his guy and says Rumsfeld has his full support and that Rummy’s leadership was "exactly what is needed at this critical period."
Notwithstanding the Presidents support, a small collection of perfumed princes have taken umbrage with Don’s management style and leadership. Hey, even before 9/11, everyone knew Don Rumsfeld could be a s.o.b. Fortune magazine had listed him as one of America’s toughest bosses…before he took over the Pentagon.
It is axiomatic that an alpha dog like Rumsfeld would p.o. other alpha dogs in uniform…and he did/does.
Rumsfeld was a wresting champ in high school and at Princeton. He was a navy pilot, congress critter, U.S. ambassador to NATO, chief of staff for Gerald Ford and then Ford’s Secretary of Defense. He was CEO of Fortune 500 companies and always, an effective, superior tough bastard.
Prior to ascending to SecDef, his plans for morphing the Pentagon into a leaner meaner, more efficient entity had institutional bureaucrats apoplectic.
In Full
Ether Zone (http://www.etherzone.com/2006/metc041706.shtml)