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...battlefield. Guys in the Pentagon will talk about missile defense as pie-in-the-sky, but that won't really weigh on the bureaucratic outcome. That will depend primarily on the President, and whereas he kept out of the issue of remaking the military, leaving it to Secretary Rumsfeld, who ultimately punted, he's more likely to press hard for missile defense. And if he does, it will happen no matter what the military thinks...
...since Daniels left his family at home in Indianapolis and moved into a one-bedroom Washington apartment whose walls remain bare, he?s been flashing some pretty mean steel. He stared down Tom Daschle?s Senate over $2 billion in extra farm aid. He cut the $40 billion Donald Rumsfeld wanted for the Pentagon in half. And he even sent his own cost-appraisal team to the wreckage of Tropical Storm Allison to kill a Federal Emergency Management Agency request for more disaster relief - for the state of Texas...
...Tuesday is sales day, with July retail sales hitting at 8:30 a.m., Wal-Mart and Home Depot reporting quarterly results, and Don Rumsfeld hawking U.S. missile defense to Putin?s Kremlin...
...Come September, Rumsfeld will probably try to navigate some middle ground between the status-quo and force reduction, find some way to reduce the perceived strategic demands of the current world, and put out a plaintive recommendation for more troop and weapons-system cuts that Congress will declare dead before it ever hits the Hill...
...been perceived as a strongly unilateralist instinct of the Bush administration. And a more assertive Democratic leadership in the Senate may also reinforce the position of Secretary of State Colin Powell, the administration's ranking foreign policy dove, in areas of conflict with the more hawkish Messrs. Cheney and Rumsfeld. But it also sounds a message on the world stage that the President's is not necessarily the last word of the United States - a problem with which a certain Mr. Clinton was more than a little familiar...