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Walker's World: Soccer, God and Rumsfeld.
Byline: MARTIN WALKER
PERIGORD, France, July 6 (UPI) -- As a young man, the competitive sport of the U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was wrestling, so he may have been paying much attention to the World Cup of soccer, now reaching its climax with the final between France and Italy on Sunday night in Berlin.
But given his sneers about the despised "Old Europe," somebody on Rumsfeld's staff or (more likely) among his diplomatic acquaintances might have pointed out that Old Europe, which also happen to be Rumsfeld's NATO allies, scooped the pool, filling all four semi-final slots. Germany and Portugal were knocked out in the semi-finals, and will now play a consolation game to see who wins third place.
Even though the Arab and the Asian and the African and the American teams from North and South were all knocked out before the semi-finals, most of the world has still been watching, despite the dominance of the defensive…
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