Rummy said: " US public had an inner moral gyroscope

[donsu]

".....which allowed them to take a balanced view of world events."

http://www.sundayherald.com/49147

Rumsfeld offers advice to Iraq … and offends its new PM

DONALD Rumsfeld came to the Middle East, he saw what was going on, but whether or not the US defence secretary conquered anyone or anything is a moot point. During his whistle-stop tour, which took in US assets in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as a confidence building stop-off in Pakistan, Rumsfeld put on a bravura performance.

Troops in Afghanistan were told that history would put them in the same bracket as the US forces which liberated Germany 60 years ago. The Pakistanis were given F-16 warplanes as a reward for their role in rounding up more than 700 al-Qaeda suspects. The new Kyrgyz government was reassured that the lucrative US air base at Bishkek would not be leaving town.

There were a few bloopers though. Having invited US troops to fire questions at him while in Kabul, he stumbled over issues such as the introduction of a new carbine and claimed not to have heard about a scheme to fast- track citizenship for non-US soldiers.

Rumsfeldisms abounded. A soldier asked why the media remained sceptical about overseas deployments such as Iraq and Afghanistan. Rumsfeld told the soldier not to worry, as the US public had an inner moral gyroscope which allowed them to take a balanced view of world events. Presumably the same instrument also keeps them on the straight and narrow.
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he also told the new Iraqi prime minister to be : “darned careful about making a lot of changes”.

inner moral gyroscope = gibberish
darned careful = a threat

[Meeker Morgan]

1. Moral gyroscope

That's like a moral compass. except it spins around in all directions.

[cliss]

2. Moral gyroscope.....

WHERE does this old man get this stuff from? WHEN is the American public going to wake up to the fact that this man is probably schizophrenic.

He has all the signs. He just keeps talking, and talking, and displays his own inner insanity.

[ladjf]

3. I fear that America's "moral gyroscope" has precessed too

far to be usable. It needs to re-oriented.