I found this documentary interview/documentary of former Bush Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld by Errol Morris both very interesting and frustrating. Rumsfeld is smug, smart, and utterly cloaked in his own ideological balderdash. He has done none of the thoughtful introspection that characterized Morris’s excellent “Fog of War” with Robert McNamara. We are getting the only Rumsfeld there is, however. He is unreconstructed. In that sense this is – partly, at least – how we wound up in the horrific mess that has bankrupted, shamed, and tortured this country (not to mention Iraq and Afghanistan), taking us down the road to becoming a paranoid warfare state. That’s a contribution on its own terms of course, but it doesn’t necessarily show me more than I thought I knew about him