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Staff and students are protesting at Stanford University after former US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was appointed to a policy research centre.
He will join the Hoover Institution as a distinguished visiting fellow.

"fellow"....One way of putting it I suppose....

Mr Rumsfeld will join a task force on ideology and terror, the conservative research centre announced earlier this month.

No better man for either, and shite on them that sez different......

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7006366.stm

The academic equivalent of the position of "Commander in charge of the coastal defense of Montana," it would seem.

Maybe he should do some research on the ideology of neconservative terrorism. oh wait....

Maybe he should do some research on the ideology of neconservative terrorism. oh wait....

Implicit in the best, most widely accepted and useful definitions of terrorism are that it is carried out by a non-state actor, especially not uniformed troops. Regarding quasi-state entities, such as Hiz'bo'allah, Latin American death squads or the SS there remains debate as to whether or not they can be classified as such. I strongly feel that they're not particularly suited to being described as terrorists, rather as another type of entity betwixt the twain.

Also, such concepts in which terrorist-style tactics are used (terror bombing and firebombing of dense urban centers; i.e. Dresden) by uniformed military services also blurs the line, but once again, I would rather classify them as something different from pure terrorism. After all, if we broaden the definition too much, it will become functionally useless.

Distinguished visiting fellow? Doesn't that mean you get paid to do fuck all as the university is only interested in having your name associated with their institution.

Distinguished visiting fellow? Doesn't that mean you get paid to do fuck all as the university is only interested in having your name associated with their institution.
Bullseye.

He and Comical Ali should get together and make a sitcom. :)

Distinguished visiting fellow? Doesn't that mean you get paid to do fuck all as the university is only interested in having your name associated with their institution.


Well.....Thats what I thought....but its Donald Rumsfeld....He's a bit "OJ" these days, isn't he?

So, he'll have a team of undergrads assigned to proofread his memoirs, eh? :p

Really though, few people have a broader knowledge of the administrative branch of the government and its history than Rumsfeld. Hopefully we'll get some good reading out of him. :)

Well.....Thats what I thought....but its Donald Rumsfeld....He's a bit "OJ" these days, isn't he?It said it was a conservative university... maybe they don't care what the liberal wackos at other institutions think of them.

It said it was a conservative university... maybe they don't care what the liberal wackos at other institutions think of them.

Stanford? I don't think they're anything like a conservative university, although you get pockets of conservatives dominating odd departments at universities you'd never expect, every once in a while. Islands of reason in the sea, as it were. :p

Stanford? I don't think they're anything like a conservative university, although you get pockets of conservatives dominating odd departments at universities you'd never expect, every once in a while. Islands of reason in the sea, as it were. :pIt says the Hoover Institution is part of Stanford, and the Hoover Institution was described as conservative research centre. So meh. Now get away from me you rabid republican :p

maybe he can work on closing down the terrorist training camps run by the US gov't?

such as the "School of the Americas" renamed "Western Hemisphere INstitute for SEcurity Cooperation".

a real terrorist training camp in every sense of the meaning.

He's a bit "OJ" these days, isn't he?

If the WMD's don't fit you must aquit?!?

The worst secretary of defense in the history of the country.

He deserves to spend his remaining days pulling a rickshaw in Burma.

He and Comical Ali should get together and make a sitcom. :)

Kind of like Paris and Nicole?

Would you still call it "The Simple Life"?

If the WMD's don't fit you must aquit?!?

Winner of thread?
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q100/TheSteveslols/Thread.jpg

"fellow"....One way of putting it I suppose....
No better man for either, and shite on them that sez different......
Yeah, and what a fellow to turn a phrase!
I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started.
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I believe what I said yesterday. I don't know what I said, but I know what I think, and, well, I assume it's what I said.
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We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead.
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[Osama Bin Laden is] either alive and well or alive and not too well or not alive.
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We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.
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Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
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Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know.
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If I said yes, that would then suggest that that might be the only place where it might be done which would not be accurate, necessarily accurate. It might also not be inaccurate, but I'm disinclined to mislead anyone.
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There's another way to phrase that and that is that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. It is basically saying the same thing in a different way. Simply because you do not have evidence that something does exist does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist.
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I don't know what the facts are but somebody's certainly going to sit down with him and find out what he knows that they may not know, and make sure he knows what they know that he may not know.
But more on topic, it should be mentioned:
I don't do diplomacy.
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I don't do foreign policy.
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I'm not into this detail stuff. I'm more concepty.
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I am not going to give you a number for it because it's not my business to do intelligent work.


And for consideration of who he regards in high intellectual esteem and reference ...
Needless to say, the President is correct. Whatever it was he said.
Someone's in good hands.

Kind of like Paris and Nicole?

Would you still call it "The Simple Life"?

Unfortunately, "Spin City" is taken. :)

Unfortunately, "Spin City" is taken. :)

O'Reilly?

...did you happen to catch the pic of him in the leather gimp suit that Colbert was gonna have him sign?

The worst secretary of defense in the history of the country.

He deserves to spend his remaining days pulling a rickshaw in Burma.

He'd end up subcontracting it to a 80 year old asthmatic widow, who'd find out too late she'd been shafted.....