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...brink of war, the world suffered a spectacular outbreak of foolishness last week. Few countries or institutions were spared. The absurd adventures of the Bush Administration, the British, the French and the Guineans have been widely reported. Donald Rumsfeld's latest act of indecent exposure - he insulted our closest ally, Britain - was duly noted (but publicly ignored, once again, by the President, who seems not to mind such behavior). Assorted Europeans, celebrities and the New York Council worked themselves into a fatuous lather over the arrogance of American power. And American conservatives blamed it all on the U.N. "As each...
...officers say, would enable the U.S. to take out lots of enemy positions across vast distances. "We want to go to these objectives as near simultaneous as we can," he said. Keane's views are watched closely inside the Pentagon. He is a favorite of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and is slated to become the Army's top officer in four months...
When two soldiers under fire are thrown into the same foxhole, survival depends on putting any differences aside. Perhaps that explains why General Tommy Franks and Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld left work one night recently for a stag dinner right out of a buddy movie. Back in January, their wives out of town, Franks and Rumsfeld hit a Georgetown sushi bar after the multimillionaire Pentagon chief decided to give the Oklahoma-born and Texas-reared artilleryman his first taste of raw fish. As Franks recalled it, "About midafternoon he said, 'Let's go eat sushi,' and I said, 'Eat what...
...mops up one war in Afghanistan and prepares to launch a second in Iraq, it is increasingly clear that if Franks is not Rumsfeld's better half, he is surely his other half, his alter ego, the soldier's soldier who can rein in the supercivilian and gently remind him that battles are won not with dash but usually with numbers. If Afghanistan had been fought Rumsfeld's way, we might still have commandos mounting up on horseback to hunt down the Taliban. If the war had been fought Franks' way, we might have nabbed Osama bin Laden a long...
...cure the long-term structural malaise," said Holger Schmieding, European economist at Bank of America in London. "If more buoyant global demand does not come to the rescue soon, Germany will remain in deep trouble." - By Charles P. Wallace/Berlin Reconstructive Criticism It was about as discreet as a Rumsfeld one-liner: the U.S. has requested bids for $900 million to rebuild Iraq, using only American companies - including Vice President Cheney's old firm Halliburton. That prompted British M.P. Vincent Cable, backed by rapturous cheers, to ask Prime Minister Tony Blair if he was "embarrassed" to support a President who regards...