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Halfway through the Obama tenure, his predecessors are still running into trouble about their legacies in interviews. This week, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld sat down with Al Jazeera’s Abderrahim Foukara to talk about the Bush legacy and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and found Foukara’s questions so infuriating that he flat out refused to answer them, instead decrying Foukara for “haranguing.”

The Aughts

As writers scramble for their last-ditch efforts to name this decade, attention has landed on Time Magazine for their proposed name: “The Decade From Hell.” But what’s more interesting is to consider what Time suggested – and today’s editors subsequently neglected to revisit – in their first issue of the decade.