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To: unclewest who wrote (209393)	6/22/2007 3:23:06 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) of 794009

I watched Barnett's appearance with Lamb this morning on C-SPAN. He was remarking about the two separate forces we have in Africa. The non-kinetic "community police" SysAdmin which is training and working with African troops, and the "Swat Team" of Special Forces. He didn't push it, but one thing that is coming though clearly in all of his presentations is the inferior caliber of the people State and the Aid groups have in the field compared to our DOD people. This makes it doubly difficult because DOD can't do a thing in Africa without the Ambassador's express permission within each country. And we have some pretty anti-military Ambassadors in some of these countries. Who REALLY don't want our SF types in "their" country. Just the opposite of the ME situation.

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