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...break it on this one." Not what you might call music to his boss's ears. When officials working for Tony Blair got first reports of Dannatt's newspaper interview, they wondered why he had taken the army's top job if he disagreed with its principal mission. When the full text arrived, Blair's aides decided that he was not frontally criticizing the PM's policy, but was instead sticking up for his beloved army in a less-than-media-savvy way. Blair held a press conference, stating that he agreed with every one of Dannatt's words...
...Rice's North Korea Sanctions Mission Is No Slam-Dunk Analysis: Sure, China has agreed to block any trade with its neighbor's weapons programs. But its priorities are to engage Pyongyang and restart nuclear diplomacy - not necessarily the same as those...
...venal--leading a nation to demand that a war create simple messages and clear-cut heroes. The movie is about the real theater of war: how a battle campaign morphed into a p.r. campaign and, implicitly, how later generations of politicians have used symbols to sell a war. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, anyone...
...Rice's North Korea Sanctions Mission Is No Slam-Dunk Analysis: Sure, China has agreed to block any trade with its neighbor's weapons programs. But its priorities are to engage Pyongyang and restart nuclear diplomacy - not necessarily the same as those...
...When officials working for Tony Blair got first reports of Dannatt's newspaper interview, they were baffled and wondered why he had taken the army's top job if he disagreed with its principal mission. When the full text arrived, they determined he was not frontally criticizing Blair's current policy, which also favors an exit from Iraq as soon as Iraqi forces can take over, but instead was sticking up for his beloved army in a way someone more media-savvy might have done without leaving so many hostages to tabloid fortune. At a press conference, in fact, Blair...