As the Washington Post reported yesterday, departed Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had some unusual things to say about Muslims in internal Pentagon memos. (Employees called Rumsfeld’s memos “snowflakes” for the way they piled up on desks).

Anyway, Rumsfeld wrote that: “Too often Muslims are against physical labor, so they bring in Koreans and Pakistanis while their young people remain unemployed. An unemployed population is easy to recruit to radicalism.”

The White House brushed off that particular snowflake late Thursday. “We are aware that we have a lot of work to do in order to win hearts and minds across the Arab world and the Muslim world. And I can understand why they would be offended by those comments,” said White House spokeswoman Dana Perino.