Agreed...
SEC. RUMSFELD: It is -- I think if you think of what's happening in Lebanon and Israel right now, you see the face of the beginning of the 21st century. You see people who are not organized in military units that we're used to seeing. They don't wear uniforms. They are not sponsored by -- correction, they are not part of a national military. Rather, they're a network and organization, a terrorist group. They're violent. They hide among innocent civilians -- men, women and children -- and then go about killing people, basically civilians but occasionally military people as well.
Hezbollah is a violent organization. It's been on the terrorist list for many years. It's killed a great many Americans over the years. And it is a difficult task. They completely ignore the laws of war. They are engaged in attempting to terrorize people and alter their behavior.
They use terror as a weapon. It is -- it means that those countries, like ours, that are organized to fight big armies, big navies and big air forces are going to have to recognize that to protect our people, we're going to have to be able to deal with these irregular types of war, have to deal with so-called asymmetric attacks that do not directly go after your army, navy or air force. It's going to be a long effort. It's going to be an effort that's global. It's going to be an effort that's going to require all elements of national power -- not simply the military, but also financial instruments and diplomacy and alliances with many other countries.
And the current battlefields are what you're seeing in Lebanon and Israel, clearly in Iraq and Afghanistan. And of course, we've seen these periodic attacks in London and Madrid and the United States and many other places -- Bali. And it is -- it is possible for people to blow up people -- innocent men, women and children -- and terrorists do that.
