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It had been a tough job to fill, what with Dick Cheney and Colin Powell looming over the foreign-policy team. Former Indiana Senator Dan Coats, the early favorite, was thought to be either unwilling or unable to deal with the two heavyweights as equals. Tom Ridge was too moderate...
He's been Ronald Reagan's Middle East envoy and Nixon's ambassador to NATO, and he studied deficit reduction under Bush's father. Heck, Cheney was Rumsfeld's deputy when Rumsfeld was Ford's chief of staff.
Now if he could just find a few Democrats. Bush noted that while the other party was taking his calls, he wasn't getting any takers either. Well, as Rumsfeld himself noted with what might have been a tinge of regret, the CIA job is wide open again.
The Clinton Legacy: The Clinton administration's high profile responses to Bin Laden have been disastrous; their low-key responses have been a lot more effective. Cruise missiles are not a particularly useful weapon against terrorists who need no bases. But patient cooperation with allied intelligence services and good police...
Situation Report: Having presided over Russia's catastrophic economic and social decline, Boris Yeltsin has now been replaced by a president with ambitions to restore Moscow?s big-power status. And President Vladimir Putin is quite happy to step on Washington's toes to do that, increasingly staking out positions...