Word: rumsfeldism
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...overwhelming military power, the U.S. runs when its nose is bloodied. The converse, however, may also be true: That the continued presence of U.S. occupation forces in Iraq fuels an anti-American insurgency there and swells the ranks of Islamist terror networks worldwide. Or, as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld put in his internal Defense Department memorandum leaked two weeks ago, "Are we capturing, killing or deterring and dissuading more terrorists every day than the madrassas and the radical clerics are recruiting, training and deploying against us? Does the U.S. need to fashion a broad, integrated plan to stop the next...
...pretty clear that the coalition can win in Afghanistan and Iraq in one way or another, but it will be a long, hard slog." DONALD RUMSFELD, Secretary of Defense, in a memo to top-ranking Defense officials leaked to the press last week...
...Last Week's Question: Is Donald Rumsfeld a liability for the Bush Administration...
...officials are quick to speak out, branding such attacks as aimed at the Iraqi people. Unfortunately, such sentiments don't carry as much weight inside Iraq when they come from Paul Bremer or Don Rumsfeld, and - as Bremer has complained - there's a conspicuous absence of an Iraqi voice speaking out forcefully, publicly and consistently denouncing such attacks. Indeed, the response to the security crisis by the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council has been to urge the U.S. to transfer more security and political control to Iraqis, although their internal divisions are reflected in competing visions on what form this...
...contributes to the security problem, the security problem also suggests that there'll be no early end to the occupation, either. Pentagon plans to begin drawing down the U.S. troop complement in Iraq by next summer, on current indicators, looks more than a little optimistic. As Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld put it in a recent memo to colleagues leaked last week to the media, what lies ahead for the U.S. in Iraq is a "long, hard slog...