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...Post's peerless Pentagon reporter, this morning disclosed the Joint Chiefs' three-option approach for what to do next (no big surprises there: stay put, add troops, get out); and in a few weeks, the commission headed by former Secretary of State James Baker and former Indiana Democrat Lee Hamilton, will brief the President and then the public on its findings...
...wants peace in Iraq and the broader Middle East, and that for the few months remaining in his premiership, he shouldn't just sit around. But his foreign-policy speech at the [an error occurred while processing this directive] Guildhall last week, followed by videolink testimony to the Baker-Hamilton commission in Washington that's tasked with somehow extricating the U.S. from Iraq, makes me think Blair's remarkable self-belief, so often his most potent tool, is now clouding his judgment. The thrust of Blair's argument is that, to counter Islamic extremism, diplomacy needs a kick start...
...each—ends up draining the funds of student groups, according to Banta. Mather pays hundreds of dollars to the Box Office to sell tickets for events such as the Mather Lather and House formal, Banta said. Black Men’s Forum President Charles J. Hamilton ’07 called for the repeal of the University Hall tax on the student group gift fund. The tax is 5 percent this year and will increase to 15 percent in three years. The UC estimates that the 5 percent tax will accrue $20,000 for the Faculty of Arts...
...Despite, or perhaps because, of the perceived Baker-Hamilton oversight, one senior retired military officer who held a number of command positions and is still well-connected to active duty generals has drawn up his own Iraq plan - and that plan is finding support in defense circles...
Retired and active duty military officers have watched with interest as the high profile Baker-Hamilton Commission, also known as the Iraq Study Group, trots around Washington meeting with politicians and top bureaucrats to help prepare their much anticipated report about what to do in Iraq. But more interesting to top military brass is who Baker-Hamilton is not spending much time with: military experts on insurgencies and warfare. Not unlike John McCain, the consensus of many of these both active and retired military officers, many of whom were sidelined by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, is that there...