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...that the President's agenda for the al-Maliki meeting was a relatively simple public relations ploy: to show support for a weak Iraqi partner and-with the Baker-Hamilton report looming-to reassert that Bush will be the "decider" on Iraq strategy. But even that simple mission failed...
...Bush has never had to pull off a U-turn like the one he is contemplating now: to give up on his dream of turning Babylon into an oasis of freedom and democracy and instead begin a staged withdrawal from Iraq, rewrite the mission of the 150,000 U.S. troops there as they begin to draw down, and launch a diplomatic Olympics across the Middle East and between Israel and the Palestinians. Even calling all that a reversal is a misnomer; it would be more like a personality transplant...
...time that is left to this Administration. That's one reason there are growing calls for a special envoy to the region who can hold all the reins in one hand. Some have even suggested that Bush try to persuade Baker to stay on and take up one last mission for his country...
Above all, Tom and Adam believe that the UC needs real direction, and we couldn’t agree more. The Council has suffered from an identity crisis, an organizational schizophrenia, lacking a particular mission or vision to drive its existence. There is no coherent legislative agenda on the UC right now, but in the New UC, there will...
...Politicians and policy makers have burned no small amount of energy in the last half century parsing the fine, and sometimes nonexistent, shades of meaning that distinguish a police action from a conflict from a peacekeeping mission from a war. There are a lot of reasons those lines are so easy to blur, but one of the most problematic is that the U.S. Constitution - an otherwise estimable document - just dropped the ball on this...