The Washington Post, July 3rd, 2004
ON HIS WAY to this week's NATO summit in Turkey, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld made a scarcely noticed stop in a usually overlooked country: Moldova, a neighbor of Romania and Ukraine, and the poorest nation in Europe. Why bother? Officially the defense secretary made his visit to thank Moldova's government for the handful of troops it has contributed to the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq, and to encourage its continued participation in NATO's Partnership for Peace program. But implicitly there was more on his agenda, something that the Bush administration is right to pay attention to: Mold...
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