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...Iraq invasion and its chaotic aftermath have damaged the U.S. for the foreseeable future. The basic premise for going to war was wrong, and Bush's and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's team made grievous mistakes that will forever define Bush's presidency. Will a troop surge help? No, it will continue to fill the President's last years in office with dead soldiers and ever increasing anger and threats. Fred Adkins London...
...Pacific Command has always been run by a Navy admiral. But by simply reshuffling top-ranking officers around the nine so-called "combatant" commands rather than bringing in up-and-coming officers is starting to raise eyebrows inside the Pentagon. Both Fallon and Keating were appointed by Gates' predecessor Donald Rumsfeld-a Defense Secretary known for strong-arming even the most senior commanders-and while continuity is useful in military circles, keeping the same leadership has a ripple effect: it keeps lower-ranking officers from moving up and, some critics argue, discourages new or creative thinking...
Carlucci, who is known for his aggressiveness and tenacity, has the stature to be an independent force in the White House, one who will not allow himself to be dominated by Chief of Staff Donald Regan. As Ambassador to Portugal when pro-Communist military men took over in 1975, he stood up to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who felt that the U.S. should break with the Lisbon regime. Carlucci urged support for Portugal's moderate left as the best way to ensure the downfall of the Communist hard-liners. He prevailed, and was proved correct...
...Larry Speakes said he would be leaving in two months. He is not, however, being driven away by the scandal. For months he has been negotiating for a $250,000-a-year job as head of public relations for Merrill Lynch, the Wall Street investment firm once headed by Donald Regan. When reporters asked how he could leave in the middle of a crisis, Speakes replied that two months would be "enough time to serve the President in the current situation...
...President, yet his thinking has apparently shifted somewhat over the past week. He does not want to be pushed into abrupt firings or show signs of yielding to pressure. He answered with a testy no! to reporters who repeatedly asked him whether he planned to jettison Chief of Staff Donald Regan, and an aide insisted that the President had no plans to sack CIA Director William Casey. But it is now quite probable that both men will be departing from their posts within the next month...