Rummy Jumps the Shark

Well, ok, he probably 'jumped the shark' long ago, but yesterday he pulled out the old Vietnam 'fight them over there or fight them on our shores' defense of his adventures in the Middle East.

“If we left Iraq prematurely,” he said, “the enemy would tell us to leave Afghanistan and then withdraw from the Middle East. And if we left the Middle East, they’d order us and all those who don’t share their militant ideology to leave what they call the occupied Muslim lands from Spain to the Philippines.” And finally, he intoned, America will be forced “to make a stand nearer home.”