Word: rumsfeldism
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...silence just compounded the concern about who knew what and who was in charge and where this all was heading. The anthrax incidents presented both a health threat and a crime scene, and the airwaves were dense with fear but short on facts. There was no domestic Don Rumsfeld, whose Pentagon briefings are reassuring even when they aren't especially revealing. Was the anthrax strain detected last week in the Congress "weapons grade" or not, easily spread or not, related to the other attacks or not? Are we ready or not? And when public officials offer answers like...
...says an Air Force commander. "But you usually don't get lucky, so you just keep pressing on." Pentagon officials have said some ground operations aimed at crushing the Taliban and al-Qaeda may not get under way until next spring. "We're not setting timetables," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday. In a remarkable admission, Rear Admiral John Stufflebeem said, "I am a bit surprised at how doggedly they're hanging onto power. We definitely need to have patience," he added. "This is going to be a long, long campaign...
...tough warriors." At the same time, British chief of staff Admiral Sir Michael Boyce warned that hit-and-run commando operations would not be enough to get bin Laden, suggesting that raids behind enemy lines would have to last days or even weeks. But when Defense Secretary Rumsfeld told USA Today that while the Taliban would surely fall, he could not be sure the effort to get bin Laden would succeed, his comments were splashed all over the world's press. Rumsfeld rushed to contain the damage, later saying at a Pentagon briefing "we hope and we expect...
...After six days, the bombing slowed, in part for observance of Friday prayers at mosques. When it was resumed at a steady pace early Saturday, the conventional wisdom grew that Afghanistan is not, as they say in the Pentagon, a "target-rich environment." Rumsfeld made the point in his inimitable style. "We're not running out of targets," he said. "Afghanistan...
...Noted "We're not running out of targets, Afghanistan is." DONALD RUMSFELD, U.S. Secretary of Defense, explaining that the Taliban and al-Qaeda have little infrastructure left to be destroyed...