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To: LindyBill who wrote (5898)	8/25/2003 3:58:34 PM
From: Rascal	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793658

Hi Lindy, Since I gather you have deserted FADG I wanted to bring this post of Carl's to your attention. Maybe you and John will want to discuss the BUsh Administration relying on an "Academic" to pull their fat out of the Iraqi Fire! Hi all; MSNBC reports Bush Administration sees problems in Iraq: What We Should Do Now MSNBC/Newsweek, Sept 1, 2003 issue, Fareed Zakaria Washington’s Plan A clearly isn’t working. The fighting is far from over in Iraq. But there’s no walking away. The administration needs to have a clear, long-term commitment, the backing of the United Nations and more than a little help from its friends. ... For all their public “bring ‘em on” bluster, top administration officials are privately worried about the course Iraq is taking. “Stay the course is not their true feeling,” one insider told NEWSWEEK. “They do not think they are on track to succeed in Iraq.” One measure of the Bushies’ concern is the appointment last month of Robert Blackwill to a high-level job on the national-security staff. The former Bush “41” staffer, a professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, is known as “a force of nature,” said a former colleague. “He can break a lot of crockery.” Blackwill has no particular ideology; he is likely to be evenhandedly blunt with neocons and internationalist moderates alike. It will be Blackwill’s job to help chart a new strategic course for the Bush administration in Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan and, just as important, to ride herd on feuding government agencies and Congress to make sure the new direction gets followed, and quickly. ... msnbc.com I for one, will have to take a second look at this Bush Administration if they are smart enough to have a Professor from Harvard chart their new Strategy for Foreign Policy. Rascal @TippingTippingTippedTowardsHarvard.com