Rumsfeld's op-ed offers riddles for Bush administration's insane policy

[ProSense]

Today, some think that World War II and the Cold War were black-and- white affairs: good versus evil. But there were always those who thought that we should retreat within our borders.

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The enemy we face today is different from the enemies we have faced in the past, but its goal is similar: to impose its fanatical ideology of hatred on the rest of the world.

In speaking to our veterans, I suggested several questions to guide us during this struggle against violent extremists:

• With the growing lethality and availability of weapons, can we truly afford to believe that vicious extremists can somehow be appeased?

• Can we really continue to think that free countries can negotiate a separate peace with terrorists?

• Can we truly afford to pretend that the threats today are simply "law enforcement" problems rather than fundamentally different threats requiring fundamentally different approaches?

• Can we truly afford to return to the destructive view that America — not the enemy — is the real source of the world's troubles?

These are the central questions of our time, and, as in all periods of conflict, we have no choice but to face them honestly.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-rumsfeld1sep01,0,1419169.story

Honestly Rummy, you should be tried for war crimes!

[Richardo]

1. the 'law enforcement' approach has been a damn sight more successful

...than the all-war, all-the-time approach.

Shit for brains.

[Justitia]

2. All those straw men & they still aren't making hay! -eom

[ProSense]

3. Spike Lee launches attack on Bush policy

"I wanted this film to be a vehicle so that people could testify to the world what happened," said Lee, who has a home in New Orleans.

"Katrina, coupled with the fiasco in Iraq, has definitely opened people's eyes in America" to the extent that sections of Bush's own Republican Party were turning against him.

"George Bush is at his lowest approval record," but was "back on the offensive," said Lee. "He's trying to bamboozle the American people now by trying to equate Hitler, communism, fascism with what's happening in Iraq.

"I hope the American people don't go for the old okey doke and believe that hogwash. This guy's gotta go."

"And it's the same for (Defence Secretary Donald) Rumsfeld, (Vice President Dick) Cheney and (Secretary of State Condoleezza) Rice. Terrible human beings, in my opinion."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060901/ennew_afp/afpentertainmentvenicefilmkatrina_060901161817