Rumsfeld on "lonesome"

[Laurence Horn]

Yep, here it is, from today's Times (which also features a very nice
story on the Arthur Avenue "Little Italy" in the Bronx, thriving as
ever):

"I don't know how many other countries will participate in the event
the president does decide that the risks of not acting [against Iraq]
are greater than the risks of acting," Mr. Rumsfeld said, addressing
3,000 marines at Camp Pendleton, Calif.[...] "It's less important to
have unanimity than it is to be making the right decisions and doing
the right thing, even though at the outset it may seem lonesome," he
added.

(p. A8)

So it wasn't a person or a thing that's lonesome here, but an event,
a.k.a. a military attack.

Larry