Friday, July 18

Donald Rumsfield, postmodernist:

"The coalition did not act in Iraq because we had discovered dramatic new evidence of Iraq's pursuit of weapons of mass murder. We acted because we saw the existing evidence in a new light through the prism of our experience on Sept. 11.

Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
Testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee
7/9/2003

I thought it was Stanley Fish I saw Rummy having that martini with. Proabably discussing truth as perception, and the ultimate unvarifiability of all perceptions. I am certainly gdad to to see his embrace of the mature thinking.