Timothy Naftali * offers a Harper's-style comparison of Rumsfeld and Robert McNamara.

Questionable presidential endorsement: Nixon calling Rumsfeld a "ruthless little bastard" (admiringly)

Following that Harper's link:

Percentage of Americans in May who believed that democracy would take hold in Iraq: 54

Number of the fourteen other nations surveyed where a majority believed this: 3

* (My review of Blind Spot now appears on the first page of results for a Google search on "Timothy Naftali".)

Tale of the Tape | Rumsfeld and McNamara