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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald Rumsfeld, Architect of War in Afghanistan, Is Laid to Rest
In a quirk of timing, the two-time former defense secretarys burial at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday seemed to serve as a kind of coda to Americas 20-year lost war.WASHINGTON A horse-drawn caisson with a flag-draped coffin passed slowly through the gates of Arlington National Cemetery on Monday, a hushed tableau against a city loud with recriminations about the lost war in Afghanistan.
The cortege carried Donald H. Rumsfeld, the hard-charging, two-time secretary of defense and one of the wars chief architects, whose burial on a sweltering August afternoon served as another coda to the 20-year conflict.
Mr. Rumsfeld died on June 29, at 88, of complications related to multiple myeloma. The date for his interment and an earlier private funeral service on Monday at Fort Myer, Va., had been set long before, but the timing meant that Mr. Rumsfeld was laid to rest during the same kind of shell shock as on Oct. 7, 2001, when the United States launched its first airstrikes in Afghanistan.
And yet, the ceremonies seemed to take place in a contained, parallel universe, sealed off from the strife of Washington. This was very much about the man and his times, and not any particular issue of the day, said Larry Di Rita, a top deputy to Mr. Rumsfeld at the Pentagon during the George W. Bush administration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/24/us/politics/rumsfeld-afghanistan.html
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Donald Rumsfeld, Architect of War in Afghanistan, Is Laid to Rest (Original Post)
Zorro
Aug 2021
OP
When they lowered the coffin, did the bottom of the grave open up so he could reach his destination?
Klaralven
Aug 2021
#4
I hope that this person is being called to account for his sins and actions
LetMyPeopleVote
Aug 2021
#7
It is a disgrace that he should be honored with a burial at Arlington! n/t
markpkessinger
Aug 2021
#8
bigtree
(85,977 posts)1. my neighbor's lawn really needs cutting
...shouldn't have fertilized the weeds last month.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)2. He should be interred in a landfill.
Saffron Walden
(18 posts)3. Rumsfeld, Cheney and GW Bush are all war criminals.
I can't even stand the sight of GW Bush, never could.
Klaralven
(7,510 posts)4. When they lowered the coffin, did the bottom of the grave open up so he could reach his destination?
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)5. Should've been buried face down.
Solly Mack
(90,758 posts)6. He got away with his crimes.
They all will.
Yet, the soporific refrain of "no one is above the law" will be regurgitated over and over again by people desperate to believe it is true.
LetMyPeopleVote
(144,932 posts)7. I hope that this person is being called to account for his sins and actions
markpkessinger
(8,392 posts)8. It is a disgrace that he should be honored with a burial at Arlington! n/t
denbot
(9,898 posts)9. X Infinity
There is no better word for it.