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Presidential campaigns cannot prepare for what Donald Rumsfeld calls "unknown unknowns"--another terrorist attack, a domestic event that becomes a mega-story. What they prepare for are known unknowns. And the biggest one for Bush is the economy. Republican pollsters are telling the White House that job security tops Americans' list of economic concerns. As a result, the White House mantra is "jobs." Bush used the word 33 times in a speech last week in Canton, Ohio...
...Clash Of The Administration Titans," your story on the foreign-policy feud between Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin Powell over how to rebuild a post-Saddam Iraq [THE RECONSTRUCTION, April 14]: What are the frothing-at-the-mouth military hawks going to say next? That Powell is an unpatriotic traitor for wanting the State Department and the U.N. to have a role in Iraq? The world view espoused by neoconservatives such as Rumsfeld--in which the Pentagon would slam the door on the U.N., Britain, the State Department and anyone else who has a problem...
...hope Powell's plan to include the U.N. in the effort to rebuild Iraq prevails over Rumsfeld's unilateral approach. But given Bush's go-it-alone war rhetoric, it doesn't look good for the sensible path espoused by Powell. So it appears that the hawks are destined to win. Their pipe dream of quickly building a democracy is ludicrous. And what if Iraq's free choice of leadership does not meet with the hawks' approval? Would pre-emptive intervention be necessary again? DICK MEIS Murrieta, Calif...
DISMISSED. THOMAS WHITE, 59, U.S. Army Secretary; by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld; in Washington. After criticism of his role as a former executive of Enron, White had a public dispute with Rumsfeld last year over the Crusader artillery program, which White saw as key to modernizing the Army and which Rumsfeld canceled...
...finally figured out the reason for North Korea's bizarre behavior of late: some time last year, in a still top-secret caper, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld must have convinced North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to switch sides and sign on to the Pentagon payroll. Okay, I admit this is far fetched. But it might just explain the series of self-defeating plays Kim has made on the strategic chessboard since President George W. Bush's "axis of evil" speech. Of course, Pyongyang's approach to statecraft has always appeared a tad peculiar, its international posture unapologetically savage...