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...Administration dispatched a pragmatist with a low-key manner and rolled-up sleeves to get the job done. "Jay's way," as his subordinates call it, involves no waffling, full accountability, foot on the gas, getting results. He has a staff of 200, but they were still stuck in Kuwait last week waiting to be told it was safe to set up shop in Iraq. "There is the physical thing--roads and bridges--we can do that; I have enough money for that," Garner told TIME last week. "And then there is the government--that is harder. We are remaking...
...defying Iraqi Information Minister. Companies on at least three continents are already using a-Sahhaf in their marketing. The Northlands Park racecourse in Alberta, Canada, recently ran an ad suggesting the Information Minister would make a good race commentator since "a little inaccuracy [makes] a race more exciting"; in Kuwait City, the designer boutique Villa Moda is giving away promotional T shirts that bear a picture of al - Sahhaf and the slogan "We even control fashion"; and low - cost airline Ryanair produced an advertisement suggesting that the "lowest fares" claims of its rival easyJet may be as valid...
...More seriously, some army officers, including a major-general, were sacked from service for disobeying orders. Their group had been deployed to Kuwait on the eve of the war for security duties. After arriving there, they discovered this involved protecting American soldiers. They refused, and were summoned home to be cashiered...
...eagerness to trash State, Gingrich appears to undo his own argument when he says it was Pentagon diplomacy, rather than State Department efforts, that won the U.S. basing rights in Kuwait, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. But it was the same Defense Department diplomacy, in the form of Paul Wolfowitz's intense direct lobbying, that failed to sway the Turks: Turkey is a "guided" democracy in which the military holds considerable sway. And the Turkish military, despite its closeness to Washington, declined at a crucial moment to advise parliament on how it should vote on Iraq - for reasons that have more...
Compare America's other wars of the past 60 years. All of them had, if not inevitability, at least a bit of propulsion from forces larger than one man's desire. Gulf War I was provoked by an actual event: Iraq's occupation of Kuwait. George the Elder didn't have to make war, but he had to do something. Vietnam, famously, was never an explicit decision. Even the parody war in Grenada had a few captive American medical students to force its way onto the agenda. Some people believe that Franklin Roosevelt personally, deliberately and even dishonestly maneuvered...