By golly the people who’ve been denigrating the Iraqi security forces are flat wrong.

Donald “Mengele’s Little Helper” Rumsfeld

But what a classic example of “framing”, right there. Actually quite Hitchensian in its use of the language of boyish admiration to make criticism of the effectiveness of something sound snarky and noxious, an act of denigration rather than of evaluation.

As if to say: I was so blown away by this that it’s quite beyond me how anyone could even contemplate a nuanced assessment of the situation - I mean come on, aren’t you just feeling it?

Well, gee, Mr Rumsfeld, I dunno…

a man with your knowledge / of electrical goods / should not be condemned / because he’s misunderstood