Word: rumsfeldism
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...some cases, to securing peace between Israel and its neighbors). Underlying the dispute are different views of how to conduct U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East in general, and in the Israeli-Palestinian context in particular. It's not coincidental that Vice President Cheney, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and other strong advocates of invading Iraq are also among the administration's most vocal critics of the notion of applying any pressure on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to resume dialogue with the Palestinians. Neither is there any surprise that the voices of caution, such as Secretary of State Colin Powell, have...
...Arab allies, and that the conflict between those competing interests would be best resolved through a territorial compromise that separates Israel and the Palestinians along a modified version of Israel's 1967 borders, creating a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza. The view associated with Cheney, Rumsfeld and others is skeptical about the wisdom of Israel ceding the West Bank, suggesting that the territory remains indispensable to the country's ability to defend itself. They tend to see the continuation of a low-intensity war between Israel and the Palestinians as representing little threat to U.S. interests...
When the substance of Murawiec's briefing leaked to the Washington Post, U.S. officials tried to pretend it had never happened. Rumsfeld dismissed it as the musings of "a French national, a resident alien," and Secretary of State Colin Powell phoned the Saudi Foreign Minister to calm down his government. Rand issued a statement distancing itself from its analyst's comments. Murawiec wasn't talking...
...Rumsfeld made clear last week that despite the Saudi embarrassment, he values the board's advice. "I have always benefited from a competition of ideas," he said. But in a Pentagon known for marching in lockstep to Rumsfeld's orders, the surreal Saudi briefing left some thinking that Perle's board should focus next on picking its targets--and the weapons used against them--more wisely...
...fast. "I'd rather have six months to one year" to train each battalion, says a U.S. instructor. "Ten weeks is what I've got to deal with. It's not a hopeless objective, but it's a difficult one." And even that might not be fast enough. Donald Rumsfeld has acknowledged that the pace of training may be too slow: "We are thinking about ways that it can be done faster." With the warlords not growing any weaker, time has become another enemy. --Reported by Brian Bennett, Anthony Davis and Michael Ware/Kabul...