Query -- [Fwd: Does anybody in this country get it?]

[Michael Pugliese]

Chuck Grimes>... I suspect Bumsfeld and the WH have put the word out to all
those
experts---shut-up about the war. So the question is why the silent
treatment? Speculating further, I would say, Bumsfeld knew in advance
this was going to be an extremely ugly and meaningless exercise in
brutality, and didn't want to answer questions about it. In other
words, there is no exit.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/issue_SeptOct_2001/interviewmain.html

Present in the interview with FP Editor Moises Naim were four of America’s
most respected and influential former military leaders: Army Major General
William Nash (Ret.), former commander of the Army’s 1st Infantry Division
and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations; Navy Admiral William
Owens (Ret.), former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and author
of Lifting the Fog of War (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000);
Marine Lieutenant General Paul Van Riper (Ret.), former assistant commandant
of the Marine Corps and former president of the Marine Corps University; and
Air Force General Charles Boyd (Ret.), former deputy commander in chief of
the U.S. European Command, former executive director of the Hart-Rudman
Commission and current director at the Council on Foreign Relations.

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 Gen. William Nash (Ret.) on how the U.S. military can respond to the
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 Gen.William Nash (Ret.) and Lieutenant General Paul Van Riper (Ret.) on
whether the U.S. will become "Fortress America" in the wake of the terrorist
attacks (833k)
Gen. William Nash (Ret.) and Lieutenant General Paul Van Riper (Ret.): Did
the attacks prove that missile defense is useless? (1.2M)
General van Riper (Ret.), Admiral William Owens (Ret.), and Gen. William
Nash (Ret.): Should the President have the authority to order
assassinations? (3.3M)
Admiral William Owens (Ret.): Besides the perpetrators, who is responsible
for the attacks? (1.3M)

 Lieutenant General Paul Van Riper (Ret.) on who should be fired for
intelligence failures (559k)

 http://www.nationalinterest.org/issues/current.html
After September 11: A Conversation

Foreign Policy
Charles Krauthammer, with James Schlesinger, Jessica T. Mathews, Robert
McFarlane, Adam Garfinkle, L. Paul Bremer, III, Anthony Cordesman, Michael
Armacost, Geoffrey Kemp, Adam Posen, Dimitri K. Simes, James Lindsay, Moisés
Naím, and others.

Defense Policy
Richard Perle, with James Schlesinger, Frank Carlucci, Anthony Cordesman,
Joseph S. Nye, Robin West, Dimitri K. Simes, Jessica T. Mathews, Robert
McFarlane, and others.

Economic Implications and Policies
Moíses Naím, with Adam Posen, Adam Garfinkle, Maurice R. Greenberg, James
Schlesinger, Steven Moore and others.

Domestic Security Implications and Policy
Fred Charles Iklé, with Morton Halperin, Morton Kondracke, Michael Barone,
Adam Garfinkle, Doris Meissner, Robert Leiken, Lionel H. Olmer, and others.

http://www.nationalinterest.org/issues/65-S/transcript.html