[Iran Press TV] Former US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld says his commander-in-chief, George W. Bush, was wrong to push "democracy" on Iraq.
It was a case of trying to fit ballet slippers on a horse, but if it had worked it would have put an outpost of rationality in the heart of the world of non-reason, or more accurately anti-reason.
"I'm not one who thinks that our particular template of democracy is appropriate for other countries at every moment of their histories. The idea that we could fashion a democracy in Iraq seemed to me unrealistic," Rumsfeld said in a wide-ranging interview with The Times of London.
Rumsfeld, one of the chief architects of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, said he became "concerned" when he first heard the idea of a democratic Iraq, floated by former president Bush.
The former Pentagon chief also criticized President Barack Obama
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's approach towards the ISIL terrorist group, controlling large parts of Iraq and Syria.
"The movement for a caliphate, the movement against nation states is central and fundamental, and no one's talking about it," Rumsfeld said, referring to the ISIL's self-proclaimed caliphate in Iraq and Syria. |