Word: rumsfeldism
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...want the official war news, that's easy--go to the Pentagon's comprehensive site, www.defendamerica.mil where you can find just about every word Donald Rumsfeld has uttered since 9/11. And if that's not enough, try afghanistan.newstrove.com which has comprehensive listings of almost every story that even mentions the word Afghanistan...
...Despite losing Mazar, the Taliban is far from crippled. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld admits that air strikes have killed only a tiny fraction of the Taliban forces, who are burrowed into caves and hidden in mosques and schools. The regime may be marshaling its soldiers and artillery for a hellacious counterattack. "It's not very surprising, given the heavy U.S. bombings, that they pulled out of Mazar," says Rifaat Hussain, head of defense and strategic studies at Islamabad's Quaid-i-Azam University. "If the Taliban choose to fight a real battle, it will be over Kabul." The capital...
...Defense Secretary Rumsfeld's comments in India Monday that he expected that the war against the Taliban would not go on for years appeared to have been directed at regional allies concerned at the negative domestic fallout from a protracted bombing campaign. After all, back home the Pentagon is having to massage the complex and sometimes contradictory message that America's patience is required for a war that will inevitably be drawn-out and costly, but also that substantial progress is being made and the enemy is on the ropes. European allies may have expressed skepticism over the nature...
...active cooperation of Arab and Muslim allies, because only when bin Laden is isolated in the Arab and Muslim world does he become ineffective. Ross is only one small part of the puzzle, of course - in recent days the Bush administration has dispatched Condoleeza Rice and Donald Rumsfeld to buck up U.S. allies, named an ambassador to the Northern Alliance, appointed advertising supremo Charlotte Beers (whose resume includes stellar campaigns for Head and Shoulders shampoo and Uncle Ben's Rice) as Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy to sell the American point of view, and announced that the President would...
...Rumsfeld has pledged "to do everything humanly possible...to let the world know that this is not against the Afghan people," but he has little chance of winning that argument. Many rural Afghans will believe anything the Taliban tells them about the U.S.--including last week's accusation that American planes were dropping chemical weapons. The only way for the U.S. to counter such claims may be to slow the aerial campaign and avoid borderline targets altogether. The U.S. destroys about 1% of an enemy force for each day of bombing; by that yardstick, there remain many Taliban targets...