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...David Miliband has an image problem. Smart and engaging, he resisted siren voices that urged him to challenge Gordon Brown in June's contest to become Prime Minister, earning a plum Cabinet job in recompense. By any reckoning he's a heavy hitter. Yet Britain's new Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs finds it tough to convince people that he's old enough to do his job. On a July trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan, his first long-haul destinations since taking office, his youthful appearance provoked disbelief. "He's the Foreign Secretary? He's so young...
...style might compromise his disarming ability to disguise his intellectual firepower and connect with people, a rare gift shared with his mentor Tony Blair. Appointed Blair's head of policy in 1994 and an author of the election manifesto that helped sweep Labour to power three years later, Miliband is already a Labour eminence, if not yet a gray one. After winning a parliamentary seat in 2001, he was rapidly promoted by Blair, who once compared his precocious protégé to Wayne Rooney. The lanky, bookish Cabinet Minister may not seem to have much in common with...
Here's how Miliband says he plans to do so as Foreign Secretary: by resisting the temptation to be reactive and formulate policy in counterpoint to Washington (or any other international player), instead emulating the strategy of Arsène Wenger, manager of Arsenal, the London soccer club he supports. "There are those who decide their strategy on the basis of who's on the other team, and there are those who decide their strategy on the basis of who's in their team," says Miliband. "It's that latter strategy [Wenger] uses. Focus on your own strategy...
...July 29, Miliband tackled his biggest fixture yet, joining Prime Minister Brown on a visit to America amid much speculation that U.K.-U.S. relations were set to cool. That night, Miliband's dinner with his opposite number, Condoleezza Rice, included heavy fare such as Iran (Britain favors a twin-track approach of incentives and sanctions), Kosovo, Russia, and his own detailed exposition of what he'd learned in Afghanistan and Pakistan (he sees the stability of both as vital to the fight against terror). Officials describe the meeting as "full and frank," which usually means that portions of the conversation...
...Miliband's 41-year-old brother David was put under pressure by Brown's opponents inside Labour to stand against Brown for the party leadership. The Harry Potter lookalike, then Secretary of State for Environment, resisted those siren calls and will now be working spells over foreign policy as his reward. The new Foreign Secretary is unlikely to charm many neocons. Skeptical about the war in Iraq, David Miliband also protested in Cabinet last year at the British handling of the conflagration in Lebanon...