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“... 5000 to 1 pales in comparison with the odds you would have got in 2008 on a future world in which Donald Trump was president, Theresa May was prime minister, Britain had voted to leave the European Union, and Jeremy Corbyn was leader of the Labour Party – which to many close observers of Labour politics is actually the least likely thing on that list. The ...”

“... Lin, a scholar who dealt with Chinese issues a decade ago while serving in the Pentagon under Donald Rumsfeld. ‘I grew up in Taiwan and came to the Pentagon as a critic of China,’ Lin told me. ‘I used to demonise the Chinese as ideologues, and they are not perfect. But over the years as I see them opening up and evolving, I have begun to change ...”

“... the number of true positives is minuscule. Hayden​ never quite made it into the inner circle of Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rice and George Tenet, CIA director until 2004. By the time he became CIA director, the job had lost some of its importance. Post-9/11 reforms had handed many of its biggest perks, including daily access to the president, to the director of ...”

“... Habermas, December 2001I have no visibility into who the bad guys are in Afghanistan or Iraq.Donald Rumsfeld, 8 September 2003I will venture a prediction. The Taliban/al-Qaida riffraff, as we know them, will never come back to power.Christopher Hitchens, November 2004The markets for defence and related advanced technology systems for 2005 and beyond ...”

“... was of less consequence to the oil supermajors than the prospect of a neo-liberal assault, led by Rumsfeld and Cheney, on Iraq’s nationalised oil industry, a staple of all Third World petro-states and a sector that had in general escaped the fate of neo-liberal privatisation. The patchwork of foreign concessions and informal state-company alliances that ...”

“... WINEP, and who included Elliot Abrams, John Bolton, Douglas Feith, William Kristol, Bernard Lewis, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz, had little trouble persuading the Clinton administration to adopt the general goal of ousting Saddam. But they were unable to sell a war to achieve that objective. They were no more able to generate ...”

“... nearly wrecking talks on strategic arms limitation (Ford’s young, hawkish secretary of defence, Donald Rumsfeld, had successfully called for a freeze on Salt II). Castro was taking big risks, but as Gleijeses argues, his adventures in Latin America had reached an impasse, while Africa still offered opportunities. Cuba had its anti-imperialist ...”