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As a
counterpoint to the Pentagon-solicited CSIS report on how to rebuild Iraq, see Foreign
Policy online with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace for a buffet
of offerings, including Now for the Hard Part, Why Oil Won’t be Quick Fix, Thomas
Carothers’ Why Dictators aren’t Dominoes, and Robert Kagan’s Looking for
Legitimacy in all the wrong places: “Americans will not always be able to say
to the world, ‘trust us, we know what we are doing’”. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/misc.php?storyID=13750&PHPSESSID=ab93a1d17f04d58506aa40ca3d4f4daa Since our foreign
policy also seems completely designed around the election campaign of 2004,
maybe someone should write a Foreign Policy for Dummies book and send it to
GDubya to read on vacation. As
Krugman writes in today’s column, we should not expect Bush to suffer as Blair has
in the UK for his contribution to fabricating and exaggerating intelligence to
justify a previous decision. However,
if Americans decide we want more than style over substance and conclude that we
invested too much trust in this President after 9/11, the day of reckoning
could be at hand. You Say Tomato
@ http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/29/opinion/29KRUG.html Now that it’s
closer to the political conventions, Bush is interested in peace in the Middle
East, not just war there. I’m
wearing my Good Faith glasses today, hoping that PM Sharon’s visit to the White
House today, where he meets separately with Bush and Cheney, will actually mean
some real work is being done in the revamped “Bush” road map, cobbled from the
earlier Mitchell plan. More photo
ops but no press conferences. KWC |
