Word: rumsfeldism
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That frustration has led the Administration to contemplate engaging in "hot pursuit," that is, chasing terrorist foes straight into Pakistan. "We're going after them," U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld vowed in early March. Soon, he was trying to tone down the talk, lauding the ties between the U.S. and Pakistan as "very good" or, as General Tommy Franks called them last week, "remarkable." It became apparent to Pentagon officials that Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf wasn't keen on letting U.S. troops charge across the border. He reportedly told the Administration that such a move could further inflame the Pashtun...
...Last week Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld swatted down reports that the U.S. plans to ship Zubaydah to a nation, such as Egypt or Jordan, that unlike the U.S. has no qualms about extracting information through torture. But a well-placed American military official tells TIME that at least initially the U.S. had looked for an ally to conduct an interrogation. "Someone is going to squeeze him," says the official. "We've been out of that business for so long that it's best handled by others." No matter who pressures Zubaydah to talk, the squeezing would most likely consist...
...word," as Rumsfeld prefers it to be called, has been percolating through legal and military circles for some months. Is the brutalization of one life justified if it could save thousands? According to a CNN/USA Today poll last fall, 45% of Americans surveyed supported torture to prevent attacks. Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz has endorsed the issuance of "torture warrants" in the rarest of instances. While ethicists remain squeamish at the prospect of torturing low-level al-Qaeda recruits who probably aren't privy to life-sparing information, the stakes may be different in Zubaydah's case. Anthony D'Amato...
...March 4, McGraw-Hill published "The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell" by University of San Francisco professor Oren Harari. In April, the same publisher will publish "The Rumsfeld Way: Leadership Wisdom of a Battle-Hardened Maverick" by Jeffrey Krames. Can "The Rice Rules" be far behind...
...opposition group leaders, with whom we had worked earlier in the fight, walked up to me from across the room, hugged me, and said: 'Who do you want me to fight now?' That's instructive, because there's a lot of that inside Afghanistan." U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is looking to a new national Afghan army as the country's key stabilizing force. But attempts to form a unified army combining Afghanistan's rival ethnic groups have proved farcical. Recruitment began in February. When the first 300 hopefuls turned up, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) took a quick...