Rumsfeld on "lonesome"

[Dennis R. Preston]

>Attacks are -human.

dInIs



>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

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