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
A terrorist can attack any time, any place using any technique and you can't defend everywhere against every technique at every moment.
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.
Even that does not suggest that there cannot be a terrorist event somewhere, someplace in the world and I suspect there will be,
You cannot defend against terrorists by hunkering down, ... You simply must go after them. That is the only proper defense is an offense.
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 price of sending terrorists a message that we are not willing to spend what it takes ... would be far greater.
It is important to go after the air defenses of the Taliban, and their aircraft, ... We are also targeting the command facilities of terrorist forces.
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.
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.
The pressure applied on terrorists and insurgents is having an effect,
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,
I really believe that before its over, its not going be a cruise missile or a bomber that is going to be the determining factor, ... It's going to be a scrap of information from some person, in some country that's been repressed by a dictatorial regime that's been sponsoring a terrorist organization that's going to provide the information that's going to enable us to pull this network up by its roots and end it.
Syria's been on the terrorist list for years,
As long as there remains a need to keep terrorists from striking again, a facility will continue to be needed,