Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Henry Rumsfeldis an American politician and businessman. Rumsfeld served as the 13th Secretary of Defense from 1975 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford, and as the 21st Secretary of Defense from 2001 to 2006 under President George W. Bush. He is both the youngest and the second oldestperson to have served as Secretary of Defense. Additionally, Rumsfeld was a three-term U.S. Congressman from Illinois, Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, Counsellor to the President, the United States Permanent...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth9 July 1932
CityEvanston, IL
CountryUnited States of America
We have to expect that global terrorist networks that we know are trying to get these weapons will in fact be successful at some time in the future,
The United States has a long relationship with the Philippines, ... Some time back, I signed understandings that we would provide some training and assistance to the Philippine government ... to deal with the terrorist problem that they have.
and we have worked over a number if not all of their terrorist training camps.
Even that does not suggest that there cannot be a terrorist event somewhere, someplace in the world and I suspect there will be,
The terrorists won't win. The Iraqi people will win,
We're working to make clear to the Afghan people that we support them, and we're working to free them from the Taliban and their foreign terrorist allies,
The pressure applied on terrorists and insurgents is having an effect,
have not done what the Pakistan government has done -- put troops along the border and prevent terrorists from escaping out of Afghanistan into their country.
This war is not about one man or one terrorist network or even one country, ... It is about a problem that infects this globe of ours with a number of terrorist networks and cells in a number of countries.
You cannot defend against terrorists by hunkering down, ... You simply must go after them. That is the only proper defense is an offense.
No terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to our security than Iraq,
Syria's been on the terrorist list for years,
the price of sending terrorists a message that we are not willing to spend what it takes ... would be far greater.
We're not going to making requests of the Saudi Arabian government. We are respectful of the circumstance of the countries of the region. We understand that, ... Our interest is to create a set of conditions, a sustained effort against terrorist networks in the region.