Irony, thou art my bitch

[serai]

From The War Room at Salon.com:


In his final "town hall" meeting today, Donald Rumsfeld was asked what books he's read while serving as secretary of defense. He said he read a "great many" books, starting with some about America's revolutionary period before moving on to books about the Civil War. Then, he said, "I stopped." Why? "I found the struggle going on -- Gosh, those years, it's so many people killed, and they were all Americans, except for the foreign fighters ... So I've turned away from that." Now, Rumsfeld says, he prefers to read about World War II.


*headdesk*

*headdesk* *headdesk* *HEADDESK*


Ow.

Comments

[celandine-g.livejournal.com]

Isn't it interesting that he seems to have created a mental "disconnect" between the "tragic" situation of Americans being killed in the Civil War and the equally tragic killing (that he is responsible for) in Iraq. It's like it's not the same thing, like one is bad and the other is...hmmmmm...not so bad?

What bizarre mental illness can create people with such illogical ways of judging atrocity--and to think that our society still "selects" for them and elevates them to positions of incredible power. One wonders (really), given the level of weapons now at their disposal, how much longer this world will survive.