"global insurgency against states"

[Chris Burford <cburford@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Rumsfeld allowed himself to be interviewed on the David Frost programm
on BBC1 this morning, and appeared to display an unusual degree of
uncertainty.

He seemed to attempt to redefine it not as a war against terrorism,
because terror is only one method he said, but as a global insurgency,
among what he claimed was a very small number of people across the
islamic world against states and the state system.

This would be consistent with him accommodating to a more
multi-lateral conceptual model of Empire and the threats to it.

He appeared to hope that the differences between Bush and Blair on the
Brits in Guantanamo Bay would be solved over soup this weekend.

He put on a show of good humour about whether he would serve again if
Bush was re-elected.

Chris Burford
London