start “taking our hand off the bicycle seat”

seems typically Rumsfeld to characterize an entire nation as a child
and with the “If you want more of something, reward it; if you want less of something, penalize it.”
the extraordinary arrogance of the man
junior highschool child psychology as foreign policy and counter-insurgancy strategy
or is it because Rumsfeld thinks Bush is an idiot, lets characterize the plan in morsels the President can consume
or more likely revealing of both

RE: Rumsfeld’s Memo of Options for Iraq War