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...eagerness to trash State, Gingrich appears to undo his own argument when he says it was Pentagon diplomacy, rather than State Department efforts, that won the U.S. basing rights in Kuwait, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. But it was the same Defense Department diplomacy, in the form of Paul Wolfowitz's intense direct lobbying, that failed to sway the Turks: Turkey is a "guided" democracy in which the military holds considerable sway. And the Turkish military, despite its closeness to Washington, declined at a crucial moment to advise parliament on how it should vote on Iraq - for reasons that have more...
Back in Washington, the Pentagon has been grooming some useful backup for Chalabi. Two subway stops from downtown, upstairs from a McDonald's, are the offices of the seven-week-old Iraq Reconstruction and Development Council. A pet project of Wolfowitz's, the organization consists of a group of exiled Iraqi technocrats sympathetic to Chalabi who have been feverishly planning how to restart everything from irrigation to trash collection to oil production as soon as the fighting stops. When they get the word from Garner, they will deploy as liaisons between his temporary American ministers and those Iraqis deemed salvageable...
...even as it plans for at least a two-year U.S. military occupation. "They can help rebuild their own country," one officer says. "We'd continue to pay them for work like engineering, road construction, removing rubble, picking up unexploded ordnance." As for the U.N., Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told a Senate committee last week, "The U.N. can be an important partner, [but] it can't be the managing partner. It can't be in charge...
...feet financially will necessitate the largest debt rescheduling in history. The U.S. is already trying to persuade France, Russia and Germany, along with moderate Arab states, which hold most of Iraq's debt, to ease the country's titanic foreign financial obligations. Hard-line Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz has called for reduction or elimination of Iraqi debt, and over the weekend the U.S. put that demand to the Group of Seven finance ministers meeting in Washington...
...preferred time slot for the arrival of Air Force One and a higher profile for counterterror issues on the summit agenda. Those relatively painless accommodations hardly signal French contrition, nor are the hawks at the Pentagon willing to offer absolution. France has reacted coolly to Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz's call that it forgive Iraq's state-to-state debt of some $1.7 billion. And there remains the delicate matter of the American consumer. Ernest-Antoine Seillière, president of the French employers' association medef, suggested last week that businesses shouldn't pay the price for politics. "Send...