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...time—is not here, but what remains is a well-executed, edge-of-your-seat thriller. Bottom Line: With all the family-oriented fare and kudo-hungry movies flooding theatres right now, have some escapist holiday fun with Craig. Daniel Craig.—Reviewer Christopher C. Baker can be reached at ccbaker@fas.harvard.edu...
...visits to the White House earlier this week highlighted the key dilemma facing President Bush as he contemplates changes to his Iraq policy: One guest was former Secretary of State James Baker and the rest of the Iraq Study Group, which together with much of the "realist" establishment in U.S. foreign policy is urging the Administration to recognize that a dialogue with Iran (and Syria) is an essential component of any successful strategy to stabilize Iraq. Bush's other visitor was Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, whose main purpose at the White House appeared to be pressing the President...
...President Bush will soon discover what Baker and Olmert probably already know: That it won't be possible to do both...
...Despite, or perhaps because, of the perceived Baker-Hamilton oversight, one senior retired military officer who held a number of command positions and is still well-connected to active duty generals has drawn up his own Iraq plan - and that plan is finding support in defense circles...
Retired and active duty military officers have watched with interest as the high profile Baker-Hamilton Commission, also known as the Iraq Study Group, trots around Washington meeting with politicians and top bureaucrats to help prepare their much anticipated report about what to do in Iraq. But more interesting to top military brass is who Baker-Hamilton is not spending much time with: military experts on insurgencies and warfare. Not unlike John McCain, the consensus of many of these both active and retired military officers, many of whom were sidelined by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, is that there...