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2005-11-29 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Tater Tot 2005-11-29 12:05|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "First, the 2005 Quadrennial Defense Review, to be released in the fall, will shift China from "near-peer competitor" to a rising power whose emergence we need to guide. It also will enshrine the notion that nation building is something the military does"

These are both Barnett obsessions, so I can see why hed be pleased. The former should be pretty controversial with some of the folks who generally like Rummy, and the latter will represent a change in longstanding positions held by Rummy. Should be interesting, if true.

Posted by liberalhawk 2005-11-29 15:28|| 2005-11-29 15:28|| Front Page Top

#2 THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE'S suite of offices in the Pentagon is on the third deck, outermost, or E-ring of the five-sided building, in the wedge between corridors eight and nine. It's one of the older wedges, on the far side of where the new ones are to be found or are being renovated, and on the opposite side of the building, one thousand feet away, from the section that was destroyed on September 11, 2001. Room 3-E-880 overlooks the Potomac in the direction of the White House and Capitol,

jeesh. Why not just put the freaking coordinates and the hours Rumsfeld is expected to be in.

Posted by 2b 2005-11-29 15:54|| 2005-11-29 15:54|| Front Page Top

#3 2b---I hear ya. What about Google Earth et al? Talk about lat-long targeting capability on the cheap! People do not realize what they say sometimes, even with the best of intentions.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-11-29 15:59|| 2005-11-29 15:59|| Front Page Top

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