Rumsfeld: the Nazi model

[Carl Remick]

>[This was pointed out by BuzzFlash.com, which mainly seems like a
>laundered PR arm of the Dems, but this is a gem. Rumsfeld, last
>night, to Jim Lehrer on the NewsHour.] Doug
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>This was a fascinating interview. Jim Lehrer in his friendly,
>lick-spittle way, bumbled into unmasking a real live Dr. Strangelove.
>
>At one point, Lehrer asked (to paraphrase), so do you mean we, the US,
>are now willing to go after potential targets, without being attacked
>first? Bumsfeld equivocated. So Lehrer rephrased the question. What I
>mean is, in the past we waited to be attacked, and then we
>responded. Are you saying that we are now willing to commit
>to actions on our own without being attacked first (words to that effect)?
>More foggy quasi-acknowledgement from Rumsfelt. At this point, Lehrer
>must have realized he had accidently succeeded in cornering Rumsfelt,
>that this was going on the air as a foreign policy statement and so he
>backed off.
>
>What made it fascinating, was that Lehrer and Rumsfelt both looked at
>each other as if they didn't believe what had just happened.
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>Chuck Grimes

Yes!  Normally the Lehrer show is a narcotic so powerful it should be on the 
controlled substances list, but I stumbled onto this exchange while channel 
surfing and had difficulty retrieving my eyebrows from the ceiling.  I seem 
to recall that Rumsfeld used some expression straight out of Dr. S. like 
"proactive defense."

Carl

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