Rumsfeld fears U.S. losing long-term fight against terror

[Tellurian]

SINGAPORE -- The United States and its allies are winning some battles in the terrorism war but may be losing the broader struggle against Islamic extremism that is terrorism's source, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Saturday.

The troubling unknown, he said, is whether the extremists -- whom he termed ''zealots and despots'' bent on destroying the global system of nation-states -- are turning out newly trained terrorists faster than the United States can capture or kill them.

''It's quite clear to me that we do not have a coherent approach to this,'' Rumsfeld said at an international security conference.

His remarks showed a level of concern about the long-term direction of the U.S.-led global fight against terrorism that Rumsfeld rarely addresses in public.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/terror/cst-nws-rums06.html

...after reading the above.. read here:

"The message is that there are no 'knowns'. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know. So when we do the best we can and we pull all this information together, and we then say, well that's basically what we see as the situation ..."

~ Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, June 6, 2002

and here: The Neocon Philosophy of Intelligence

[NMDemDist2]

1. "The Neocon Philosophy of Intelligence" is an oxymoron eom

[Tellurian]

11. Alert...movie on FX called 'Meltdown' reairs @11PM - must see!!!!

terrorists attack nuclear site in US..

[EdGy]

2. you need to fix your link

here's the link:

www.lewrockwell.com/orig4/barry-tom1.html

[ugarte]

3. If it weren't so tragic

the stuff Rumsfeld says is actually pretty entertaining. He could maybe do comedy after January 2005.

[Tellurian]

4. Thanks, EdGy..something is going hoopy tonight..

I dunno whats happening..

I thought we were being hacked..

[havocmom]

7. are you having 'puter trouble too on DU?

I had to shut off my modem (DSL connection) twice today when I was on DU cuz all sorts of weird stuff started going on, like somebody had my 'puter.

[Tellurian]

10. You did?

I left my cookies on when I visited the pnac site..hmm..

[LittleApple81]

5. You know, if we survive these idiots and get a "normal administration"

and are our children and grandchildren hear us talk about these idiots and what they did and say... they will not believe us. I will have to save the books... and some of the posts in DU. If we survive, we have to bear witness to this madness.

[KissMyAsscroft]

6. But business is booming though!

I'm sure Halliburton can take care of a few more wars and a few thousand more terrorists...they will be just fine.

[Gold Metal Flake]

8. Rumsfeld fears Rumsfeld is losing long-term plan to stay employed

I mean really..

[Tellurian]

9. Reading the quote made on 6.6.02 by "Rummy" boggles the mind..

This is scary !

[Oreegone]

12. As Jackie Gleason would have said

Well Woop dee do.....like this is a surprise to anyone....coherence that is something long since lost.

[Tellurian]

13. The surprise is, no one can do anything about it..nt

I'm starting to feel like a hostage..

[Moderator]

14. Duplicate of this thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x606923