Because Rumsfeld was constantly getting philosophical in briefings about “what is a war? Clausewitz said…” when his job was to win an actual, concrete war in Ir

Because Rumsfeld was constantly getting philosophical in briefings about “what is a war? Clausewitz said…” when his job was to win an actual, concrete war in Iraq, and we had no idea who the hell were setting the IEDs and kidnapping foreigners. He was too far up his own ass to notice he was losing.