2004年1月美国《时代》周刊登刊一篇题为《战争部长》的通讯,报道了2003年12月美国防部长拉姆斯菲尔德视察驻伊拉克美军部队,为战后频遭裘击而一筹莫展的美军官兵打气和出谋划策。尽管这篇通讯站在美国记者的立场上,但读者仍可从中真实地看到伊拉克战争中,拉姆斯菲尔德作为架构师,为美国发动和运作这场战争留下种种失策的败笔,了解他亲临前线又是如何推行他的军事理念及新形势下美军转型的战略战术的,同时还能了解到这个大学时代凶猛的摔跤手、冷战时期鹰派斗士,两任美国防部长逞勇好斗、刚愎自用的性格以及“一言堂”家长制作风。 ——编者 In January 2004, Time magazine published an article entitled “Minister of War,” which reported that U.S. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld inspected U.S. forces in Iraq in December 2003 and was unable to make any progress in fighting the war. The U.S. military officers and soldiers cheer and give advice and suggestions. Although this news station is on the position of a U.S. journalist, readers can still truly see that in the Iraq war, Rumsfeld was an architect who left all sorts of misconduct in the United States to launch and operate the war. At the same time, I also learned that this university-era ferocious wrestler, the hawkish fighters in the Cold War era and the two U.S. defense ministers bravely engaged in combativeness. At the same time, Just for personal use of character and “a word of worship” parental style. --editor