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12 years ago today, Donald Rumsfeld sent the greatest memo of all time

by Matthew Yglesias

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Today is Vox’s first anniversary, but it is also the 12th anniversary of former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld sending what was perhaps the greatest memo ever written. Titled “issues with various countries,” it noted in passing that basically none of the Bush administration’s foreign policy initiatives were working well, and asked Undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith to solve all the problems:

Needless to say, none of this got solved.

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