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...That question isn't being asked only by liberal antiwar opinion-makers. It has also been raised by a growing number of senior officials in Washington and U.S. commanders in Iraq. An internal memo drafted by Colonel Timothy Reese, an adviser to the Iraqi senior military command, and leaked to the New York Times last month doesn't mince words. He writes that it is time "for the U.S. to declare victory and bring our combat forces home...
...have any of those advantages. The next leader of the TTP will face threats from three quarters: challengers from within the group, a land assault by the Pakistani military and the CIA's deadly drones. Baitullah's death, says the counterterrorism official, proves the the TTP's "most senior leaders can be taken off the battlefield with great precision ... that places they thought were secure are anything...
...Just a few weeks after the Modin quarantine, senior officials from across the government gathered in the basement of the West Wing to begin planning for the siege to come. On the flat-screen televisions embedded in the soundproof walls, a PowerPoint slide flashed the human toll of previous epidemic flus: more than 600,000 Americans died in the 1918 pandemic, 70,000 "excess" deaths resulted from the Asian flu in 1957, and there were 34,000 deaths after the Hong Kong flu hit in 1968. Next to the 2009-10 H1N1 pandemic, the screens showed nothing but a series...
...Senior officials say the harsh language was intentional. "We talked about it beforehand and intended to deliver a message," says a senior Treasury official. Both on Capitol Hill and in the regulatory agencies, Geithner felt, the "searing experience" of last fall's near meltdown of the global economy was falling prey to inertia and in some cases lobbying. "The reality is that there are pretty powerful vested interests fighting this," says the senior Treasury official. "It's not the entire industry, but they have an interest in fighting change...
Obama and Geithner have met stiff resistance from both the semi-independent regulators and Capitol Hill. "No one's supporting the Administration proposals," says a senior official at one of the regulatory agencies. "Everyone's opposed in one way or another." Some Senators, including the banking committee's top Republican, Richard Shelby, dislike the broad regulatory and oversight powers of the consumer-protection agency and are strongly opposed to increasing the power of the Federal Reserve. Other regulators, like the FDIC and the Comptroller of the Currency, don't want to lose their power to supervise banks and financial institutions...