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...Administration officials gloss over these splits by saying they have all known one another a long time, that arguments sharpen policy and that they all just serve the President. But some observers believe the turmoil has meant that Rice has been unable to assert the traditional role of National Security Adviser. After September 2002, for example, she set up four interagency task forces, chaired by her staff members, to examine various aspects of Iraq policy. The process never got much traction. Both Defense and State had their planning operations on Iraq (looking at very different things in very different ways...
...There is, of course, a winner in this tragedy. His name is Kim Jong Il. With South Korea in political turmoil, North Korea's degree of freedom in its nuclear confrontation with the Western world expands quite nicely. In the immediate future, the North need no longer worry about coordinated international efforts to press Pyongyang for nuclear compliance, because those efforts would inevitably require coordination with the now dysfunctional government in Seoul...
...clear that the primary justification for going to war was based on flimsy and contrived evidence. The “humanitarian” justification is equally suspect. Though Iraqis are now free from the despotic rule of Saddam Hussein, their country is in a state of turmoil. Occupation has failed to provide any sort of security and is probably doing more harm than good. As a result of the presence of American troops, the country has become a magnet for terrorist groups which have been carrying out deadly attacks on civilians. The American corporations with contracts in Iraq have also...
...decision should stand. If it does, a new presidential election will be held, which could mark a bitter and premature end to Roh's political career. Meanwhile, South Korea's armed forces went on alert on the off chance that North Korea might try to exploit the political turmoil. The U.S. State Department would say only that it's watching developments "carefully," while Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi deflected questions from reporters by saying, "It's Korea's problem...
Abbot on life in Cambridge: “Cambridge. The burden of life must be taken again—the rush of cares that cannot be shunned, the heat and the turmoil...