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...teach it a few lessons. Each man enjoys rock-star status. Each came to his current post in a roundabout way. Rumsfeld, who once served as Richard Nixon's NATO ambassador, has become at 70 the civilian warrior. Powell, a lifetime soldier, is at 66 the country's top diplomat. In other words, each man considers himself an expert in his own field--and the other guy's as well...
...That, at least, is the fear of Arab moderates like Marwan Muasher, the Jordanian foreign minister, an experienced diplomat who has served as the Hashemite Kingdom's ambassador to Washington and Tel Aviv. "We believe that radicalization has already started in the Arab world," he told me the day the American tanks rumbled into Baghdad. "Talk to anybody on the street...
...military leaders in Baghdad; Administration officials told TIME that the intelligence was gleaned from multiple sources, including electronic eavesdropping and reports from a single Iraqi official who had recently turned on Saddam. A senior Jordanian official says tips were also passed to the U.S. by a Jordanian diplomat and Egyptian intelligence agents, who claimed they had identified Saddam's exact location. For days, a senior White House aide says, the CIA had been conducting an all-sources operation to try to track Saddam's movements. On Wednesday they hit pay dirt. According to the aide, at least one CIA source...
...nearly a year after 9/11, in conversations throughout Southeast Asia, I encountered sympathy and admiration for the U.S. "Where are you from?" a diplomat or a street vendor would ask. "America," I'd reply, "New York City." This would elicit expressions of outrage at the terrorist attacks, generous inquiries into the well-being of my friends and family and then perhaps a mention of the war in Afghanistan. From the impoverished or oppressed, a request often followed: please tell your President to send help. A faint belief that he might was detectable. A sense that he could, through benign gestures...
...doesn’t exist anymore-she’s now Susannah the Social Worker, whose job is to protect America’s kids while some of their parents are at war, or Sue-Lee the Student, whose job is to keep learning how to be a better diplomat so that one day she can try to prevent scenarios like this one. Both are left in the position of continuing to support what they believe in, whether that be war or opera...