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Rumsfeld Chides Europeans for Lack of 'Vision' (Fox News, June 11, 2003)

On his first visit to Germany since the war in Iraq, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld revived the issue of Western European opposition to the conflict, suggesting it resulted from a lack of vision.

Rumsfeld said some Eastern European countries supported the Iraq war and the previous conflict in Afghanistan. And he asked rhetorically why it was that some of those small, struggling former communist countries were able to "make such outsized contributions to peace and security?"

"The key, I believe, is that even as they are busy looking inward and rebuilding their economies and societies, they have had the vision to
look outward as well, to find ways they can contribute to a more peaceful and secure world," he said.

"It suggests that the distinction between old and new in Europe today is really not a matter of age or size or even geography. It is really a matter of attitude - of the vision that countries bring to the trans-Atlantic relationship."

While the Euros hoped to let sleeping dogs lie, Mr. Rumsfeld brought a cattle prod. Lord, love the man. Posted by Orrin Judd at June 12, 2003 9:36 AM