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...middle of 2004, the U.S. again changed its team in Baghdad. Bremer and Sanchez left, replaced by Ambassador John Negroponte and General George Casey. At the same time, there was a new transitional Iraqi government, led by Iyad Allawi. Negroponte set up a joint military-diplomatic team to review the situation in the country. The consensus was that things were a mess, that little had been accomplished on either the civilian or the military side and that there was no effective plan for dealing with the insurgency. The new team quickly concluded that the insurgency could not be defeated militarily...
Other planned initiatives include a program to train civil-rights lawyers to be expert witnesses; support of the reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act of 1965; a joint program with the Kennedy School of Government in criminal justice policy; and a pro-bono project to overturn wrongful convictions...
Honoré seems uniquely qualified for the task. Until June 2004, he was the Standing Joint Force Headquarters--Homeland Security commander, responsible for studying a national response plan to a weapons-of-mass-destruction attack as well as for the onslaught of storms like Katrina. The office had conducted a study of what New Orleans should do after a direct hit by a massive hurricane. It concluded, says Honoré, that "there would be a lot of water" but never took into account levees bursting. A plan was in place to evacuate the city, he says as he surveys the detritus...
...Ying-jeou Chairman, Kuomintang, Taiwan The central theme of their conversation will probably focus on security and stability in the west Pacific in view of the joint military exercise by Russia and China. But as the leader of the opposition party in Taiwan, I certainly would like to see more stability across the Taiwan Strait...
...Mark Kirk Member, U.S. House of Representatives The number one issue right now is North Korea and U.S. joint diplomacy. North Korea utterly depends on China for fuel and food. If China were to interrupt those supplies, a Chinese initiative to North Korea would be listened...