Word: rumsfeldism
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...more than 180. The voice's condemnation of key allies in the U.S. antiterrorism war--Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Canada and Australia--put foreign governments on alert for another major hit. Bin Laden also named Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Colin Powell and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld--he calls them "the White House gangsters"--and that has counterterrorism experts worried those officials might be personally targeted...
George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld are decidedly outside the normal run of statesmen who have held high office in the U.S. And the things that make this Administration different will contribute to a terrible war in the near future [Iraq, Oct. 21]. America is behaving like an imperial power, extending its economic and political hegemony and riding roughshod over any opponent who may get in its way. Bush doesn't care whether these organizations and nations have legitimate grounds to question his economic, political and strategic objectives. Such behavior cannot fail to promote war. And there will...
...side, but NATO itself is not likely to be central to the endeavor. "NATO as a war-fighting machine is dead," says French defense analyst Fran?ois Heisbourg. "It would do well to stop pretending that's what it is." As George W. Bush and U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld travel to Prague this week, those who still believe in the alliance are trying to figure out not just how NATO can get back in the game, but what that game might be. The Balkan wars showed how ill equipped the Europeans were to fight a war, even one in their...
...reviewing those controls and have provided technological fixes to iron out some of the problems. NATO officials hope the Spanish will demonstrate progress at Prague in improving the meager capacity of European allies to refuel their planes in flight. The allies got a further spur in September, when Rumsfeld formally proposed a combat force of up to 20,000 troops that can be deployed within a week and stay at least a month. This "NATO response force" - which bears more than a passing resemblance to the E.U.'s Rapid Reaction Force - is expected to be approved in Prague and calls...
...terrorism was always going to be a two-fold process - systematically eliminating the leadership and personnel of the terror networks, and transforming the political environment that had nurtured them in order to prevent a new generation of terrorists taking their places. Draining the swamp, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld called it, rather than only swatting the mosquitoes. Plenty of mosquitoes have been swatted, of course. But there are plenty more buzzing around, waiting to pick their targets. More importantly, perhaps, the swamp is looking nastier than ever. Hostility to the U.S. is more widespread and more intense than ever in bin Laden...