Rumsfeld’s fatal flaws coming home to roost

THIRTY-THREE years ago, Donald Rumsfeld, then a domestic policy official in the Nixon administration, became involved in foreign policy by volunteering to run the post Vietnam War reconstruction effort.

History is not without its little ironies.

Now Secretary of Defence, Rumsfeld is under assault from the left and right and may find his long career prematurely ended because of his insufficient interest in the reconstruction effort in Iraq.