Word: rumsfeldism
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...Some Washington hawks believe China might even be willing to help undermine the regime. U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld circulated a memo, leaked on the eve of talks, advocating that the U.S. team up with China to oust Kim through diplomatic pressure. "When push comes to shove, China may be willing to pull the plug," said Gordon Flake, a North Korea expert at the Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs in Washington...
...with weapons may (or may not) have been hiding--we've seen this movie before, from India to Algeria to Ireland. Many of the Administration's statements on Iraq reveal a cast of mind last exercised by those with ostrich-feather plumes on their hats. Iraqis, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said recently, will "figure out a way to manage their affairs" that will be "consistent with the principles that we set out." (Those principles, just so you know, don't extend to an "Iranian-type government," which, quoth the good Secretary, "ain't gonna happen...
...hope that when the smoke clears from the Iraq thing, more attention would be given to Rumsfeld's ideas." BILL CLINTON, former President, on the need to incorporate the Defense Secretary's views into discussions on the future shape of the U.S. military...
...with the anti-war, anti-Bush crowd. In a Crimson op-ed, historian Howard Zinn characterized military intervention in Iraq: “Those who die in this war will not die for their country. They will die for their government. They will die for Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld. And yes, they will die for…the political ambitions of the President...
...government is hurting for cash, too, with much of the aid money promised by donor nations in the wake of the Taliban's ouster having failed to materialize. Rumsfeld's announcement was designed in part to persuade donors that the war is over and it's now time to send reconstruction aid. (The Bush administration wasn't exactly leading by example when it simply forgot to include aid for Afghanistan in the initial version of the budget it sent to Congress in February.) Most of the $1.8b that arrived in the first year after the war was spent...