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Apparently, sometimes all you need to commit yourself to a career that means risking your life and distancing yourself emotionally from your friends and family is a quick look at a hot chick. So the CIA has persuaded Alias star JENNIFER GARNER--who plays a CIA agent on TV--to appear in a college recruitment video. Having successfully appealed to pathological liars earlier this year with that whole African yellowcake scandal, the CIA has moved on to the horny-young-boys phase of its rebuilding process. Meanwhile, Kiefer Sutherland has got to be considering hiring Garner's agent...
...value out of them. The personnel experts say it would be probably a couple of years. There's no quick fix. We feel an obligation before recommending an increase in end strength to be respectful of the taxpayers and make darn sure that when we do it and commit to that long-term cost, we're right...
...President Bush this week sounded a resolute vow to stay the course in Iraq, for years if necessary. But the financial and military burden of post-Saddam Iraq certainly raises the pressure on the administration to seek new agreements via the UN with allies currently reluctant to commit lives and treasure. Which suggests that this Fall, like the last one, will see the Bush administration arm-wrestling at the Security Council over its plans for Iraq...
...Well, if the U.S. is really aiming at making the threat of military action a cornerstone of a foreign policy that allows for preemptive action, as is the case currently, the country will eventually have to commit a lot more than 3% of GDP to defense spending. However, rather than rushing into raising the deficit, raising taxes, or cutting other spending programs, probably one should start by asking if that is the right foreign policy after all. Armando Santiago Mexico City...
...such as Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, seemed conceptually unable to grasp before the war. But as the Economist tartly notes, war lite is all very well, empire lite could be a tragic mistake. Iraq - and Afghanistan - are only likely to be stabilized if the U.S. is willing to commit a lot more troops, or else persuade competent allies to do so. Presumably, also, the folks on Capitol Hill will have to be willing to give generously when Paul Bremer next comes calling for a reconstruction effort already projecting a $4 billion budget deficit for 2004. European governments and international...