Word: rumsfeldism
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...remained deliberately vague on the issue of mandatory U.S. emission reductions, a key European demand. And to smooth ruffled South Korean feathers, the Administration last week announced it would offer to resume talks with the North on missile testing and development. Even the hard-nosed Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, who had previously argued for withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Balkans, conspicuously celebrated the righteousness of their mission on a visit there last week...
...Inciting the ire of the Rangers wasn't the Army's only fashion faux pas. There was the prickly little matter that the Army had contracted out production of some of the 2.6 million berets to China. That didn't sit well with new Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who promptly canceled the order. The Army ended up paying China for 600,000 berets it won't be distributing to the troops. Luckily for burgeoning fashionistas, the extras will likely be sold in Army surplus stores...
...oddly New Democratic offer to share a little of the NMD pork with Russia's arms industry, Moscow is likely to dig in its heels against any abrogation of the 1972 Anti Ballistic Missile treaty, more confident now that the Senate will restrain Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld from any precipitous rush to tear up the treaty and build a missile shield...
...will the Bush team sail on its current tack? Hard to say, especially given the many signs of division between Powell's State Department, on the one hand, and Vice President Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld's Pentagon, on the other. But just as America shouldn't summon into existence the threats it wants to defend against, Europe shouldn't hasten a rift it doesn't want by talking up the danger to the Atlantic alliance. These are still early days. Bonds built over more than five decades shouldn't be called into question, even rhetorically, after 15 weeks...
Cause and Commitment. Well, I suppose nuclear-missile defense qualifies as a cause. President W. and Secretary of Missile Defense Rumsfeld explain that we ought to cough up $100 billion to construct a Slomin's Shield to protect us from rogue nations like Iraq, Iran and North Korea, in case they go ballistic (those rogues!). Since normal deterrence has worked for 50 years, goes the reasoning, let's scrap...