The Surge Bribe Strategy - The Greatest Legacy of the Surge

Rumsfeld was once Gerald Ford's chief of staff in the White House, right? Yes. Brennan: But you'd be forgiven if you were an average American reading the news or watching TV and hearing that we put a smart general in charge. And it turns out that that mopped up the mess that Rumsfeld and Bush had been spilling all over the country for years previous. The greatest legacy of the surge is that we're going to see a lot of these same guys again in a little group called ISIS.