Tag Archives: 'rumsfeld'

• Fallibility

  Culpability of the horrific events of nine-eleven squarely land at the feet of Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda terrorist network. However, fallibility in the U.S. government to prevent the events, according to Richard Clarke, is as follows: – Condoleeza Rice, then National Security Advisor, for failing to understand the urgency to deal with [...]

• In the News

  - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff do not have email accounts, not even one of those free Gmail accounts. In the fast-paced world of communication and the convenience of Blackberries and cellphones, this is unacceptable. (Or is it?) – Amazon will try its hand at competing with Apple’s iPod by [...]

• Secretaries of State and Defense

  The Secretary of Defense should always be for war (and in this sense, Donald Rumsfeld is a great Defense Minister), and the Secretary of State should always be for peace, against war, and always striving for diplomatic resolve. (Colin Powell, some may successfully argue, meets this criterion.) However, when the Secretary of State has zero-say [...]