Word: rumsfeldism
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...fair to say that Wade Horn is not your typical George W. Bush appointee. For one thing, the 47-year-old volunteered for George McGovern and played guitar in a folk-rock ensemble that favored trippy tunes like A Horse with No Name by America. Unlike Rumsfeld or Powell, he's so soft-spoken, you have to lean in to hear him. When he spouts statistics about family-dissolution rates, you wonder how he found himself in the towel-snapping world...
...terror, particularly as Pakistan moves troops away from its western border with Afghanistan to the Kashmir front. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage is scheduled to visit India and Pakistan this week to lean on both sides. Soon thereafter, it will be Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's turn to journey to the region and remind both parties that mutually assured destruction means just that...
This particular old soldier has the greatest respect for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld [NATION, May 20] but wonders if he should have the final say on axing the Crusader, the U.S. Army's mobile howitzer. Though not yet deployed, it is an important component of U.S. tactics for the 21st century. How ironic that Rumsfeld, who has been so skillful at overseeing the use of military force, is against a weapon that would give our ground troops a decisive edge on the battlefield of the future. Our nation's military successes in Afghanistan are as much a result of planning...
...like Abu Sayyaf and fundamentalist Muslim separatist groups with links to al-Qaeda's web of terror. Washington was in no mood to second-guess the Philippine army's efforts. "The Burnhams have not been well, and they lived in captivity a long time," said U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. "It seems to me that the attempt to save their lives was understandable...
...Pakistan's President, General Pervez Musharraf, at a conference in Almaty, Kazakhstan, until cross-border terrorism ceases. Police in Indian-administered Kashmir said that they killed at least six members of Lashkar-e-Toiba, a group of Islamist militants, in the frontier district of Poonch. U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld went to India and Pakistan to step up diplomatic pressure on the antagonists. MIDDLE EAST Car Bomb Reignites West Bank Violence A suicide bomber drove a van packed with explosives into a bus filled with soldiers in Megiddo junction in northern Israel, killing 17 passengers and injuring 40 others...