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...whose taste for multilateral solutions had made him the odd man out among the Bushies. The need for daily decision making has restored Vice President Dick Cheney to his favorite role, as unseen foreign policy adviser to the President. The need to wage war has reinvigorated Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who had been fighting a losing battle with his military bureaucracy. All of it has given a new focus and direction to George W. Bush...
...Rumsfeld said Thursday, the fight against terror "undoubtedly will prove to be a lot more like a cold war than a hot war. If you think about it, in the cold war it took 50 years, plus or minus. It did not involve major battles. It involved continuous pressure. It involved cooperation by a host of nations. It involved the willingness of populations in many countries to invest in it and to sustain it. It took leadership at the top from a number of countries that were willing to be principled and to be courageous and to put things...
...Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told reporters at the Pentagon, “You cannot defend at every place, at every time, against every conceivable, imaginable—even unimaginable—terrorist attack...
...Even amidst calls for heightened security, public officials across the country urged Americans to return to their daily activities. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld braced the U.S. public for a long campaign, saying the attacks could go on for "several years," and acknowledging the airstrikes could elicit new terrorist attacks against the United States. Counter-terrorism efforts are in full swing across the country; in Washington, former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge was sworn in as the head of the newly created Office of Homeland Security...
...Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says the strikes were meant to destroy the Taliban's air defenses and their military aircraft, and he described them as "very successful." "Our objective," said Rumsfeld, "is to defeat those who use terrorism and those who house and support them...