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...colleague comments, "It doesn't mean a lot to be a Rhodes scholar in the Army, but it helps your career when the President is one." In fact, after Clark had run the Southern Command for only 12 months, Clinton nominated him to be NATO commander. That too raised Pentagon eyebrows, given that Clark had no significant command experience in that theater either...
...document, labeled “Top Secret and Urgent” and dated Feb. 19, 1998—the day after President Clinton gave a major Pentagon speech on the danger posed by Saddam—contains a letter outlining a proposed visit by a bin Laden operative to Iraq from Sudan. Baathist officials hoped the trip would allow them “to gain the knowledge of the message from bin Laden and to convey to his envoy an oral message from us to bin Laden.” And what would that “oral message?...
...Bush administration has refused to face the dangerous reality of the North Korean nuclear crisis, a former senior Pentagon official said last night during a panel at the Kennedy School of Government...
...panel, said that Han’s absence had prevented what “was about to be the reunion of a foursome that first got together in 1994,” when Han served as South Korea’s foreign minister, Carter and Nye worked at the Pentagon, and Hubbard worked as a deputy assistant secretary of state...
...Kurdish parties on the Iraqi Governing Council - and South Korea may be persuadable to add to its current deployment of 700 non-combatant troops, if the price is right. Prospects of getting significant forces from Pakistan and India appear more remote, right now, and nobody at the Pentagon is expected a UN resolution to bring a flood of peacekeepers. Similarly on the question of funding: Even if European governments were more sanguine about the U.S. reconstruction effort, the state of the world economy and security prospects on the ground in Iraq may limit the extent of financial assistance the Bush...