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Bruce Stirling on Rumsfeld
Jun. 28th, 2003 12:27 pmFrom Wired:
There's Something About Rummy
Critics be damned! The defense secretary knows what's right for America.
By Bruce Sterling
My favorite Bush administration figure is the president's gnomic futurist, defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Rummy thinks outside the box. He talks in aphorisms, adages, and apothegms, rather like a magazine columnist. So I find it hard not to like him.
He chaired Rand, the gold standard of national security think tanks. He's vastly preferable to other famous Republican futurists, such as Joan Quigley (Nancy Reagan's astrologer) and Michael Drosnin (who recently briefed the Pentagon on the prophetic intelligence unveiled by his so-called Bible Code). Unlike those sorry phonies, Rumsfeld has demonstrated his skills in real-world positions of power and accountability. He's also capable of talking good sense.
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There's Something About Rummy
Critics be damned! The defense secretary knows what's right for America.
By Bruce Sterling
My favorite Bush administration figure is the president's gnomic futurist, defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Rummy thinks outside the box. He talks in aphorisms, adages, and apothegms, rather like a magazine columnist. So I find it hard not to like him.
He chaired Rand, the gold standard of national security think tanks. He's vastly preferable to other famous Republican futurists, such as Joan Quigley (Nancy Reagan's astrologer) and Michael Drosnin (who recently briefed the Pentagon on the prophetic intelligence unveiled by his so-called Bible Code). Unlike those sorry phonies, Rumsfeld has demonstrated his skills in real-world positions of power and accountability. He's also capable of talking good sense.
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