Rumsfeld: the Nazi model

[joanna bujes]

At 06:16 PM 02/05/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>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.

Killing people because they prove a possible threat works for Israel, right?

Joanna B.