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Donald Rumsfeld’s disdained legacy

Donald Rumsfeld’s disdained legacy

His warning against American retreat and weakness is being dangerously ignored

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Melanie Phillips
Jul 02, 2021
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Donald Rumsfeld explaining “Known and Unknown,” 2011

With ironic timing, the death of Donald Rumsfeld this week has occurred when American foreign policy is lurching in precisely the opposite direction to everything he stood for.

His passing has provoked a renewed chorus of bilious disdain from those for whom he was a lightning rod for the failures of the…

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