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...remained deliberately vague on the issue of mandatory U.S. emission reductions, a key European demand. And to smooth ruffled South Korean feathers, the Administration last week announced it would offer to resume talks with the North on missile testing and development. Even the hard-nosed Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, who had previously argued for withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Balkans, conspicuously celebrated the righteousness of their mission on a visit there last week...
...Richard Perle, then an Assistant Secretary, was beloved by the right for his antipathy toward arms-control pacts and peaceniks in general. Now, just when conservatives are starting to grumble that Bush is going soft on defense, Perle is returning to the battlefield. Pentagon insiders say Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will soon promote Perle, previously an unpaid member of the 18-person Defense Policy Board, to board chairman. That will give him a Pentagon office in the gilt-edged E-ring, one floor away from Rumsfeld and better able to catch his ear should Perle find the Pentagon underfunded...
This Donald rumsfeld guy: I'm worried that he's going a bit soft. The U.S. Secretary of Defense, who, if you believe half the stories about him, eats iron filings for breakfast, flew to Europe last week to brief NATO ministers on the Bush Administration's plans. In advance of the trip, it had been widely leaked that the Pentagon's systematic review of defense policy would mark a shift in America's priorities from Europe to Asia. On the flight over, Rumsfeld told journalists this had all been overplayed; Europe was still important, America had vital national interests...
...Inciting the ire of the Rangers wasn't the Army's only fashion faux pas. There was the prickly little matter that the Army had contracted out production of some of the 2.6 million berets to China. That didn't sit well with new Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who promptly canceled the order. The Army ended up paying China for 600,000 berets it won't be distributing to the troops. Luckily for burgeoning fashionistas, the extras will likely be sold in Army surplus stores...
...oddly New Democratic offer to share a little of the NMD pork with Russia's arms industry, Moscow is likely to dig in its heels against any abrogation of the 1972 Anti Ballistic Missile treaty, more confident now that the Senate will restrain Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld from any precipitous rush to tear up the treaty and build a missile shield...