Gingrich Tells Rumsfeld to Dig In for 70-Year War

Newt Gingrich is thinking big thoughts again:

U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is circulating a strategy paper by former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, asking top deputies to take another look at the QDR with it in mind.

"What does he propose that we have overlooked?" wrote Rumsfeld in a Jan. 30 memo marked "for official use only" to Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Peter Pace, Vice Chairman Adm. Edmund Giambastiani and Eric Edelman, under secretary of defense for policy. "Are there any adjustments to our (Quadrennial Defense Review) roadmaps that could benefit from his ideas?"

While I agree with Mr. Gingrich that the war on "the irreconcilable wing of Islam" will last a lot longer than the decade or so everyone hopes, the hopeless idealist in Gingrich has clearly not been extinguished:

Gingrich posits the creating an "Intelligent Effective Limited Government" which will use "entrepreneurial public management and modern information systems to modernize the government into a system compatible with the speed, agility, flexibility and efficiency of modern global companies."

Good luck with that.

Update: Jawa posts on India bombings.