Having no plan for the post war period was Donald Rumsfeld’s plan. And our secretary of defense threatened to can anyone who dared draw up contingencies for nation building.

Via Kevin Drum, you have got to read this extraordinary interview with the outgoing commander of the Army Transportation Corps, Brig. Gen. Mark Scheid:

Rumsfeld was “telling us we were going to war in Afghanistan and to start building the war plan. We were going to go fast.

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