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Rumsfeld prepares for conflict in East Asia. Critics whine.
It looks like Rumsfeld is once again ahead of the curve. All the ankle-biters who want the US military transformed into an anti-insurgency force are outraged. Outraged, I tell ya.Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is using some controversial lessons gleaned from the invasion of Iraq to buttress his plans to overhaul the U.S. military. The unprecedented speed of the assault on Baghdad saved countless U.S. lives, Mr. Rumsfeld has often said. An even faster attack with U.S. forces streaming through Turkey could have crushed Saddam Hussein's Baathist leaders before they disappeared, he suggested in a recent Pentagon press conference, and might have prevented the bloody insurgency from taking hold so strongly. Posted by: Zhang Fei 2005-05-16 |
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