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...line on sanctions against Iraq during his Mideast tour, the hawks weren't about to allow him to start sending flowers to their favorite bogeyman in Pyongyang. North Korea's missile program is Exhibit A in the case for building a national missile defense, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, for one, has spent much of the past five years talking up the imminent missile threat from Pyongyang as a reason to hurry the deployment of a missile shield. If North Korea's missiles could be negotiated away for a couple of hundred million dollars in aid, that might seem...
...subject of one of the fundamental planks of the Bush administration's foreign policy - national missile defense. Pyongyang's presumed missile capability has been Exhibit A in making the case for a shield designed to protect the U.S. from warheads fired by "rogue" states, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has spent much of the past five years talking up the North Korean threat. Rumsfeld and other administration hawks have never been comfortable with the Clinton policy of offering North Korea economic aid in exchange for curbing its roguish ways, seeing this as simply encouraging Pyongyang to keep on blackmailing...
...coincidence, then consider the people running our country: They are the vestigial remains of the Cold War era. Secretary of State Colin Powell is a Cold War general; National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice is a Cold War scholar; and Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld are Cold War politicians. Their political decisions thus far, as well as their indifference to Moscow's reaction to them, are all too reminiscent of Cold War strategy...
...zone, but an ensemble of countries that want to unite in order to manage their affairs better and play a role in international affairs," says a senior French diplomat. But few think tanks in Washington follow the E.U., few Americans have worked in Brussels, and when Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld recently delivered a major speech on transatlantic ties, he never uttered the words "European Union." That captures Washington's view that Europeans fuss too much over the fine points of their multilateral architecture and not enough over their military capabilities, still heavily dependent upon the U.S. for airlift, intelligence...
International support seldom counts for much in a Washington power struggle, but in the looming battle over Iraq policy it may be crucial. Secretary of State Colin Powell appears to be shaping up for a showdown with administration hard-liners such as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and even Vice President Cheney - supported by a number of key Republicans on Capitol Hill - over the question of easing sanctions against Iraq. Powell has used his tour of the Middle East, which ended Tuesday, to build support for a revised sanctions package that lifts many of the economic restrictions on Iraq but tightens...