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...count their own citizens among the murdered, are trying to balance diplomatic and economic demands against the wishes?and threats?of their people, monitoring what's happening down on the street while heeding a battle cry from the other side of the world. U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld last week reiterated the vague mantra that this will be a long, drawn-out campaign: "This is not something that begins with a significant event or ends with a significant event." But the starkly defined strategy of building a coalition is definitely significant. The choices Asian countries (and individuals) are making...
Person of the Week INFINITE PATIENCE? As the United States engages in the biggest mobilization since the Gulf War, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld warns that the coming campaign could be long and bloody. The Pentagon is taking its time, but how much longer will Americans be willing to wait...
...Afghanistan was not the only focus of U.S. policymakers. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the campaign, now codenamed Operation Enduring Freedom, would not last "five minutes or five months," but would be a stealth war lasting years. Efforts to expand an international coalition received a boost with promises of support from Japan, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Russia and Central Asian republics. But the perceived threat to Islamic groups angered Iran and triggered unrest in Indonesia and Pakistan, as well as among Taliban supporters in Kabul, who stormed and defaced the abandoned U.S embassy compound...
...often determines where the President will be - as it did last week, when Cheney's recommendation cemented the White House decision to speed its push for a stimulus package heavy on tax cuts. In between meetings with Bush, Cheney works the phones, reassuring nervous allies, advising Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on the nuances of Middle East politics and touching up his plan for the new Office of Homeland Security...
...Laden ain't so tough - and perhaps that's why Wall Street's predisposition this week has been to inch up instead of down while it waits for war. But any investor confident enough to buy into this week's tentative surge may want to remember that if Don Rumsfeld and Colin Powell and George W. Bush were as confident, we'd have seen some explosions in Afghanistan...