Kenneth Adelman is the former deputy U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, advisor to President Ronald Reagan, assistant to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
On The Iraq War
In an article for The New Yorker, Adelman wrote of Rumsfeld: “How could this happen to someone so good, so competent? This war made me doubt the past. Was I wrong all those years, or was he just better back then? The Donald Rumsfeld of today is not the Donald Rumsfeld I knew, but maybe I was wrong about the old Donald Rumsfeld. It’s a terrible way to end a career. It’s hard to remember, but he was once the future.”