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...personal motives have skewed the President's judgment about the war. Saddam tried to kill his dad; his dad didn't try hard enough to kill Saddam. There was payback to be had. But never was Bush's adolescent petulance more obvious than in his decision to ignore the Baker-Hamilton report and move in the exact opposite direction: adding troops and employing counterinsurgency tactics inappropriate to the situation on the ground. "There was no way he was going to accept [its findings] once the press began to portray the report as Daddy's friends coming to the rescue...
...read Aryn Baker's article on Talibanistan [April 2] with interest, since I spent time working in the borderlands of Pakistan and Afghanistan in the early 1980s and '90s. It isn't in the least odd that a Waziri elder in Pakistan should look to Afghan President Hamid Karzai as his leader. When I first went to Peshawar, I discovered that Pashtuns had contempt for Punjabis, that they speak a different language and have very different customs. Lieut. General Hamid Gul may be a former director general of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, but old soldiers in Pakistan never really...
...Baker Professor of Public Management Herman B. Dutch Leonard pointed to the Hurricane Katrina crisis to emphasize the need for collaboration across sectors...
...officer was dispatched to the Baker Library to take a report of a stolen unattended and unsecured black IBM Thinkpad laptop computer valued...
...what I’d say: Look for a film that offers some humanity. The by-the-numbers “Barley” could have learned a thing or two from the award’s past recipients. —Staff writer Christopher C. Baker can be reached at ccbaker@fas.harvard.edu...