A pic of the author: perhaps she can lend Rummy some of her testosterone...
Who asked you, Ms. DiPaulo, and HOW did you arrive at that conclusion, did you measure the testosterone?
Barf-a-roni!
No doubt the Rumsfelds’ two dachshunds have more class than Ms. DiPaulo.
Wow! The never ending story! Joyce sounds like a sweetheart. Rummy a little grumpy, in a take charge sort of way. Ordinary people, after all.
A pic of the author: perhaps she can lend Rummy some of her testosterone...
“The fact is, we’re in a conflict and a struggle—the first conflict of the twenty-first century for the United States of America. It is new, it is unfamiliar to the American people, and there’s… In a very real sense, the American military cannot lose a battle, they can’t lose a war. On the other hand, they can’t win the struggle themselves. It requires diplomacy, it requires economic assistance, it requires a range of things that are well beyond the purview of the Department of Defense.” His purview. “In terms of what’s going on in Iraq or Afghanistan today, what the Department of Defense is doing is working. What isn’t working is the diplomatic side. The government of Iraq has not been able to find ways to bring the elements of that country together sufficiently that they can create an environment hospitable to, uh, whatever one wants to call their evolving way of life, a democracy or a representative system or a freer system. Look at Afghanistan. In Afghanistan, 28 million people are free. They have their own president, they have their own parliament. Improved a lot on the streets.”
DHR gets it. The White House Reporters didn’t stand a
chance when they decided to go toe to toe with him or challenge him.
good read ping
Her ignorance about cattle guards etc. is not the only “New York” thing about her. She has this pretentious way of assuming the voice of the narratator of a novel, and calling too much attention to herself. Unlike a good reporter like Teddy White, who could talk in the first person and still keep the focus on his subjects.
...and James, Kelly, Rocky, and Rex love him more now, too! ;-----)
Ventana, is the rest of this as bad as the exerpt? You can save me some time and some pain here.