Word: rumsfeldism
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...count their own citizens among the murdered, are trying to balance diplomatic and economic demands against the wishes?and threats?of their people, monitoring what's happening down on the street while heeding a battle cry from the other side of the world. U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld last week reiterated the vague mantra that this will be a long, drawn-out campaign: "This is not something that begins with a significant event or ends with a significant event." But the starkly defined strategy of building a coalition is definitely significant. The choices Asian countries (and individuals) are making...
Person of the Week INFINITE PATIENCE? As the United States engages in the biggest mobilization since the Gulf War, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld warns that the coming campaign could be long and bloody. The Pentagon is taking its time, but how much longer will Americans be willing to wait...
...Laden ain't so tough - and perhaps that's why Wall Street's predisposition this week has been to inch up instead of down while it waits for war. But any investor confident enough to buy into this week's tentative surge may want to remember that if Don Rumsfeld and Colin Powell and George W. Bush were as confident, we'd have seen some explosions in Afghanistan...
...Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made no secret of the fact that he was setting out to calm some nerves in a lightning whip around the Middle East Thursday, stopping in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Oman before heading for Uzbekistan, the former Soviet Republic that may well become the key forward base for any U.S. military action in Afghanistan. And in what appears to be a parallel mission, Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair - who has shouldered a good part of the coalition building responsibilities on behalf of the Bush administration - headed for Russia and Pakistan...
...against terrorism, which is precisely what makes maintaining the coalition so essential - because direct military action plays only a minor role in such a conflict, the lion's share of which is waged at the political, diplomatic, intelligence, law enforcement and financial levels. And the trick, in which Secretaries Rumsfeld and Powell, Prime Minister Blair and a host of others are heavily engaged right now, is to ensure that whatever military action is taken doesn't throw the rest of the project off balance...