The transcript of the contentious interview of Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, with Al-Jazeera television could be considered symptomatic of both the dichotomy between domestic and geopolitical and the ways that this dichotomy comes under pressure in the rhetorical situation. 

In the interview, which would logically be intended for an Arabic speaking public in the Middle East, Rumsfeld mentions his wife twice in discursive situations that verge on nonsequitur.
 

I work with Colin Powell every day. We have views that are very similar on most things. We differ from time to time, but then I differ from time to time with my wife on various issues, so that doesn't mean much.

 

I don't know, there's something about the press that they like to get up in the morning and create conflict between people. It's apparently a lot easier for people in the media to write about personalities than it is about concepts and strategies and direction.  If you personalize a thing into good guys and bad guys, it's an easier story, I suppose, for a journalist, but it's not terribly useful.  I've been kind of amused by it all from time to time, and my wife and children know I'm basically a nice person.