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...with a Bush, the foreign policy team was built on centrism. The President had long experience; his best friend, Jim Baker, was at State; his foreign policy mentor, Brent Scowcroft, was at the National Security Council. The tough guy at the Pentagon, Dick Cheney, was reined in by the consensus among the others. The team worked seamlessly, pretty much agreeing on things, sharing an outlook that was steady, center-right, practical. Powell loved it and felt an integral part...
...Tactical consensus, strategic difference...
...Fundamentally, Israel's unity government is built on a basic consensus over forceful responses to Palestinian attacks. But day-to-day tactics do not a strategy make, and Sharon's strategic vision may alarm those Labor politicians who believe Israel's future depends on a comprehensive peace. Sharon considers that belief na?ve and dangerous, and has made no secret of the fact that the deals offered by Ehud Barak are null and void...
...Israel. Although many African governments sympathize with the plight of the Palestinians, they're uncomfortable with the Arab bloc's apparent willingness to scuttle the whole conference by insisting that the harshest possible language on Israel remain in the final document - because the conference declaration must be adopted by consensus, the impasse over Israel and Zionism threatens to derail the entire enterprise. That prompted the Africans and Europeans to work hard on finding a compromise text, but when a Norwegian-authored text that had reportedly been acceptable to Washington proved was rejected by the Arab bloc over the weekend, first...
...Wednesday brings the mother of all backward-looking indicators, the Gross Domestic Product number for the second quarter. The forecaster consensus - however likely that is to be slightly off - is a full-moon, goose-egg, love-love 0.0 percent, which at this point should be as much of a relief as anything. Smart economists will be leafing through the report for seeds of what we can expect going forward, namely the points taken off the GDP by hand-over-fist inventory liquidation, theoretically a good and fertile development for the seasons ahead. Here'll be the really scary news...