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Thomas P. Barnett on Rumsfeld

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Thomas P. Barnett at Real Clear Politics profiles Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld.  Here's a taste:

...HE IS KNOWN to his personal aides and longtime colleagues as a "deep diver." Confront him with a tough new bureaucratic nut to crack and he goes deep- waaaay down -on the subject until he feels he gets  it  sufficiently to assemble the right smart people to handle the job. It doesn't matter how much time he appears to be wasting on the process; he simply doesn't move ahead until he's got the picture in his head of what "this thing"-whatever it is-is really all about. He will keep the U. S. military's most powerful men sitting around a table for however long it takes for that to happen...

Be sure to read the whole piece.  It is a well written synopsis of what happens in Rumsfeld's inner circle.


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