Destroying the Village?

Rumsfeld: Criticism Harms War on Terror reminds me of that old saw about "it was necessary to destroy the village in order to save it." We're supposedly fighting this war on terror - in the "centerpiece" of Iraq - at least in some fashion to lift our Arab brethren out of oppression. But in order to do so, we have to suspend our right to point out that we think Donald Rumsfeld is full of crap.