Rumsfeldian

For the fact is that over the centuries, despite the repeated objections of what one might call the Rumsfeldian camp, the United States has been engaged in nothing less than an ongoing campaign of global pacification—clearing, holding, and building in region after region around the world.

How Wars end Gideon Rose 2010

It's a battlefield, so Haller can be excused for taking a Donald Rumsfeldian view of his job: "There are three things for the lawyer to always consider," he reflects.

Sleuths and the City Tom Nolan 2011

And we can't afford any Rumsfeldian "logic" of absence of evidence does not mean evidence of absence.

Obama: Iran still has a path to international acceptance 2009

Having silkily dispensed with the old Rumsfeldian idea that the U.S. should deal with EU states as individual nations, he went on to dismiss the euroskeptic majorities in most European countries: "I believe in a strong Europe, and a strong European Union, and my administration is committed to doing everything we can to support you."

A Letter to America Daniel Hannan 2011

And of course, in a typical Rumsfeldian touch, he says he later learned CIA operatives on the ground had asked for help, but "I never received such a request from either Franks or Tenet and cannot imagine denying it if I had."

The One That Got Away Peggy Noonan 2011

The other guy may be targeting the top 35% of the audience, though instead of answering questions, he repeats standard conservative bromides in a self-satisfied, Rumsfeldian, father-knows-best way.

Matthew Yglesias » Stop Reading This Blog on Turn to C-SPAN 2009

Is he enamored of Rumsfeldian principles of total information awareness, and the fantasy of demographic control through biometric identification that seems to have taken permanent hold of the Washington bureaucrat's imagination?

Anis Shivani: Is Now the Right Time for Immigration Reform? Chuck Schumer, the Sensenbrenner in Liberal's Clothes 2010

At the risk of sounding a bit Rumsfeldian, the right answer to the wrong question is still the wrong answer.

Paul Abrams: Democrats (and Bloggers) Asking the Wrong Questions Paul Abrams 2010

At the risk of sounding a bit Rumsfeldian, the right answer to the wrong question is still the wrong answer.

Paul Abrams: Democrats (and Bloggers) Asking the Wrong Questions Paul Abrams 2010

Is he enamored of Rumsfeldian principles of total information awareness, and the fantasy of demographic control through biometric identification that seems to have taken permanent hold of the Washington bureaucrat's imagination?

Is Now the Right Time for Immigration Reform? Chuck Schumer, the Sensenbrenner in Liberal's Clothes 2010