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To: Win Smith who wrote (27261)	4/26/2002 3:51:03 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 281500

Oh dear. On the infighting front, Powell may be seasoned, but it's hard to match Cheney and Rumsfeld, who out-infought Kissinger in the Ford administration. I just hope Cheney's trip injected a little reality into that axis. That, and maybe W's father and the uniformed military brass (as opposed to the civilian DoD) might keep a lid on things. Good point, Win, but the problem which worries me the most and is not mentioned in this Post article is the Bushies inherent (where did that word come from) arrogance, now enhanced by their Afghan experience. I'm afraid Bush will eventually go with Cheney and Rumsfeld not because he thinks they have the better policy argument but because, as Rumseld puts it in his Foreign Policy article, we don't want to manage a war by committee. It's the Bush feeling, a family feeling, that they know best, that I fear. Because, in addition to everything else, it is finally not in touch with the ground. I still see the father's wrist watch check in one of the presidential debates and his sudden surprise at checkout machines in grocery stores as a way of reading these guys.