Donald Rumsfeld: History is Not Made Up of Blogs

Posted on March 18, 2006

The Washington Post has a quote from Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld where he says he prefers history over what blogs, news headlines and websites are saying about the situation in Iraq.

Some have described the situation in Iraq as a tightening noose, noting that "time is not on our side"and that "morale is down." Others have described a "very dangerous" turn of events and are "extremely concerned."
Who are they that have expressed these concerns? In fact, these are the exact words of terrorists discussing Iraq -- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his associates -- who are describing their own situation and must be watching with fear the progress that Iraq has made over the past three years.
The terrorists seem to recognize that they are losing in Iraq. I believe that history will show that to be the case.
Fortunately, history is not made up of daily headlines, blogs on Web sites or the latest sensational attack. History is a bigger picture, and it takes some time and perspective to measure accurately.

Daily Kos writes, "History, for Rumsfeld, would ideally be made up of neatly organized DOD press releases." Rumsfeld may want to wait for the Iraq War history books to roll off the presses but the recent poll numbers show most people keeping up with the blogs and the news are unhappy with the situation in Iraq.