Word: rumsfeldism
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Bose labeled Donald Rumsfeld “an American Caesar,” and asked why he seems reluctant to talk about the “American Empire...
...anti-terrorism adviser, who has served in national security positions for four presidents, opposed the immediate push to bomb Iraq, not al Qaeda? According to an interview broadcast Sunday on “60 Minutes,” Bush (step one) listened only to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney, (step two) called those who opposed the unrelated Iraq operation “not interested in the security of the American people” and (step three) pushed the CIA to minimize bothersome intelligence...
...countries in the Middle East that understand strength, and it's a very important message. But in my judgment, the way it was applied this time, it has encouraged street-level anger, and I have been told by people it encourages the recruitment of terrorists. I mean, look, even Rumsfeld's own memo underscores that they haven't discovered how to stem the tide of recruitment...
...Bush Administration--particularly in an election year--isn't likely to dispatch more than a few thousand to Haiti for much longer than the three months mandated by the U.N. last week. "We stepped up, and we are the lead elements of the interim force," said Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who sees an international peacekeeping force of up to 5,000 in Haiti before long. But "obviously, we'd like to see some other country take that lead...
...brand of Sunni radicalism was innately conservative and therefore a natural ally of the U.S. against both the godless communists and the radical Shiites. (Ironically, it was the same hostility to the Mullahs in Tehran that led the Reagan administration to send an emissary to Baghdad - a certain Mr. Rumsfeld - to make nice with Saddam Hussein and offer support against the common foe.) The assumption was half-right, of course - Sunni radicalism of the Wahabi stripe certainly is innately conservative, in social and religious terms, but that doesn't necessarily make it a natural ally...