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   The [1]Nikkei editorial about the Rumsfeld resignation was published
   this morning. American readers may be interested to hear that it
   pushes the Robert McNamara comparison--the meme has arrived in Japan:

     There has been no two-term president who has had the same Secretary
     of Defense for all eight years in office. Rumsfeld assumed the post
     after the Bush administration began in 2001; combined with his year
     as defense secretary under Ford in the 1970s, that gives him a
     total of seven years in the position. His only rival [in that
     regard] is McNamara, who was Secretary of Defense for seven years
     under Kennedy and Johnson.
     Both men have had experience running private enterprises, and both
     applied their private-sector administrative methods to policy in
     the Department of Defense. As a result, both ran into
     snags--McNamara in Vietnam, and Rumsfeld in Iraq. Rumsfeld,
     especially, in beginning the war in Iraq, attempted to get results
     with the lowest possible amount of military force. This move
     invited opposition from the armed forces and is connected to the
     current state of confusion.

References

   1. http://www.nikkei.co.jp/news/shasetsu/index20061109MS3M0900209112006.html