Rumsfeld's legacy?

Fred Kaplan looks at the weapons systems up for cancellation by the Pentagon. It's an interesting piece, but in it Kaplan writes,

In the fall of 2004, at the height of the Abu Ghraib torture scandals, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld resisted calls for his resignation mainly because, as the New York Times reported, he wanted to stay "until his main legacy—the transformation of the military—is well under way." If that was the case, he might as well start packing now. Rumsfeld enters his sixth year in office with his legacy clouded, his concept of "transformation" upended, his whole cupboard of grand concepts laid bare.

His legacy is "clouded?" Perhaps, if you consider squid ink "clouded." What aspect was clouded? Afghanistan? A brilliant use of Special Forces uniting with local warlords to defeat the Taliban. Unfortunately General Franks, with Rumsfeld's approval if not dictate, ran the entire operation from balmy Florida and with Osama bin Laden trapped in the Tora Bora, relied on local warlords to bring him in, "dead or alive." Iraq? Perhaps Rumsfeld's transformative thinking led to the rapid destruction of Saddam Hussein's regime. It would seem, though, that his transformative thinking didn't include any thoughts about what might happen after that regime was destroyed.

Clouded, indeed.

As Jon Stewart noted the other night in describing the Wise Men/and one Woman (and one former press secretary) who met with the preznit last week to discuss Iraq, Robert McNamara was invited to ensure that there was at least one person who'd fucked things up worse than Donald Rumsfeld.