Did anyone catch Rumsfeld on Fareed Zakaria's GPS this weekend? He made some really subtle but ugly remarks in response to Zakaria's tough grilling. From the transcript:

RUMSFELD: — of GDP today than we were then and we can afford it just fine. Now, there are people who think we're living in the post-American world, to coin a phrase. There are people who believe that we should step back and lead from behind. I personally think that the role of the United States has been a good one in the world, that it's been a healthy thing, that it's contributed to a more peaceful world, and it's not an accident that people all over the world want to come here, and they're standing in line to get a green card to come to the United States.

And the order that the United States contributes to, peace and stability in the world, by our strength is significant. I mean, Dwight Eisenhower had the phrase right — it's peace through strength. It's be a deterrent, have those capabilities that dissuade people from thinking they can do things they ought not to do.

Weakness is provocative. We don't want to provoke people.

ZAKARIA: But Eisenhower believed very much in having a military industrial complex that was manageable. He worried a great deal about overspending. He worried even after Sputnik that it was going to be — he is if anything a story about somebody who felt that you don't need, you know, to spend more than the rest of the world put together, which is what we're spending.

I just want to say on your bait that —

RUMSFELD: You like that phrase.

ZAKARIA: All the nice things you said about America are what attracted me to come to this country in the first place.

RUMSFELD: And we're glad you came.

Charmed, I'm sure. Of course, Zakaria wrote the "post-American world" and is a naturalized American citizen. The smarmy implication is obvious. I found it interesting that when confronted this alleged "tough guy" backed down in true pussy fashion.

Wonder what Midge Dector thinks of her loverboy now?

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