Word: pentagonal
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...make a preemptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities can be measured by how frequently the Bush Administration trots a senior official out to insist that there are no plans to launch such an attack. On Nov. 12, it was Admiral William Fallon's turn. The head of the Pentagon's Central Command, which would execute a strike should the day ever come, dismissed the idea in an interview with the Financial Times. "It astounds me that so many pundits and others are spending so much time yakking about this topic," Fallon said...
...conceived it, so for a while his reputation dimmed. But in the decades that followed, he hit his powerful stride with a new kind of metaphysical journalism and The Armies of the Night, his brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning "nonfiction novel" about the October 1967 antiwar march on the Pentagon. These were the years of Mailer at his most pyrotechnic, when he took up every kind of public intellectual battle and even ran a boisterous, quixotic and very entertaining campaign for mayor of New York City. A second Pulitzer arrived for The Executioner's Song, the spare and haunting book that...
...original version of this article incorrectly included former Pentagon Inspector General Joseph Schmitz as one of the number of Bush administration IGs who "have been forced to resign under a cloud as a result of bipartisan pressure, often because of bald incompetence or gross interference with the IG mission." While at least one Democrat and one Republican senator were raising questions about Schmitz's job performance at the time of his resignation in September of 2005, Schmitz had in fact conveyed to the Secretary of Defense his decision to step down a year before. Moreover in October...
...Pentagon officials say they have no idea whether Musharraf's imposition of what is essentially martial law will succeed or fail in stemming the radical Islamist tide. "Sure it works in the short term," one Army officer says. "But if the country is too brittle it could break." Pentagon officials added that the U.S. is reviewing some $300 million in foreign military sales financing for 2008, $32 million for law enforcement and anti-narcotics efforts, and $2 million for military training - the same kinds of program whose scrapping in the 1990s so upset Zinni...
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said Monday the Pentagon would be looking into its military assistance programs to Pakistan, but added, "we are mindful not to do anything that would undermine counter-terrorism efforts." With those efforts so closely tied to Pakistan's military, most experts in Washington expected the U.S. to make little more than superficial changes to the cash flow heading into Musharraf's coffers...