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To: FaultLine who wrote (115961)	9/30/2003 12:22:30 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Zakaria does an admirable job of ( dare I say? ) "fisking" Rumsfeld, but I can't imagine that it could make any difference. I guess it depends if you hold with Friedman or Brooks: Our Iraq strategy needs an emergency policy lobotomy. President Bush needs to shift to a more U.N.-friendly approach, with more emphasis on the Iraqi Army (the only force that can effectively protect religious sites in Iraq and separate the parties), and with more input from Secretary of State Colin Powell and less from the "we know everything and everyone else is stupid" civilian team running the Pentagon. (Friedman in #reply-19260290 ) The essential news is that Bush will do whatever it takes to prevail, and senior members of his administration are capable of looking honestly at their mistakes. You will just never be able to get any of them to admit publicly they've ever made any. ( Brooks in #reply-19295276 ) Personally, I must again float my modest proposal, upping the ante modestly by leaving out the obvious alternate candidates. Rumsfeld ought to get Bremer's job. He wanted the war as much as anybody, and he wants full control of the aftermath, W ought to give him what he wants.

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