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To: GST who wrote (118740)	11/6/2003 9:33:14 AM
From: GST	Respond to of 281500

Great article -- this is indeed precisely what happened: <..."Before 9/11, this group ... could not win over the president to this extravagant image of what foreign policy required," said Ian Lustick, a Middle East expert at the University of Pennsylvania. "After 9/11, it was able to benefit from the gigantic eruption of political capital, combined with the supply of military preponderance in the hands of the president. And this small group, therefore, was able to gain direct contact and even control, now, of the White House.">