Word: rumsfeldism
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...been rumored about for months, Goss's departure was one of those Washington episodes that are more sudden than surprising. Goss was alarmed to discover, within a few months after taking over, how hard the job was. He lost some fights with rival intelligence agencies, particularly at Donald Rumsfeld's Pentagon. He wasn't a very good manager, and while he had been put in the job to assert control over CIA careerists, the flow of experienced hands opting for the exit on his watch was steady and worrisome...
...While the CIA is watching substantial duties and numbers of its analysts get shifted to offices under the DNI, the Pentagon has in some cases been better able to stave off such transfers. This suggests at least a partial victory for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who originally was reluctant to back the creation of Negroponte's office. Officials tell TIME that the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency has handed over far fewer analysts in response to Negroponte's call. The DIA director, Lt. Gen. Michael Maples, has insisted that because "we're at war," he can spare very few billets...
...role as "self-evidently nonsensical." Let the monarchy evolve. Michael Alan Peate Ottawa A General Disagreement It's a pity that the American public was not privileged to hear the dissenting voices of professional soldiers such as Lieut. General Greg Newbold [April 17] before incompetent civilians like Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney - and our own Tony Blair - committed the U.S. and its allies to a disastrous war. I wonder whether Bush & Co. ever go to the many war monuments just down the road from the White House and look at the memorials to a terrible waste of good...
...could be different because of the lessons of history and a price of miscalculation, which is now obviously very high. What a forlorn hope! As recent events have again demonstrated, the arrogance of power obscures all reference to the past. How else can one explain the naive belief of Rumsfeld & Co. that they could march into Iraq and, in a few months, pacify a region with a centuries-old tradition of turmoil? Harold Jones Erbach, Germany The Future for Italy's Young Re your report on the under-40s [April 10]: I'm an American who has been living...
...care how many generals have joined Newbold in criticizing Defense Secretary Rumsfeld. Iraq's actions were not "peripheral to the real threat," as Newbold claims. Saddam Hussein wanted to be the venture capitalist of Islamic extremism. Iraq today may be a down-and-dirty training ground for terrorists, but Saddam's Iraq was their five-star hotel and bank...