Entrevista com Donald Rumsfeld

Entrevista dada a Spiegel. Impressionante, Obama é tão ruim, tão despreparado, que é mais fácil demoli-lo do que era criticar Bush. SPIEGEL: Mister Secretary, you are famous for your long list of "Rumsfeld rules" -- little pearls of wisdom you have accumulated over decades in government. Do you happen to have a rule that gives advice on foreign invasions?
Rumsfeld: Actually, I do. When you begin an invasion, a rule is "the mission should determine the coalition, not the other way around." You should not first assemble a coalition with many different views and then try to determine the mission. That leads to a lack of clarity as to the mission.
SPIEGEL: Is that the case with the current NATO invasion in Libya?
Rumsfeld: I think you can make that case. The United States did not articulate, to my knowledge, a clear mission. We started putting together a coalition, and then the coalition fashioned the mission. The coalition members cite humanitarian concerns, but as long as there is ambiguity about whether or not (Moammar) Gadhafi is going to stay or leave, there will be still more people killed. So from a purely humanitarian standpoint, that ambiguity is harmful -- and it can in fact be lethal.