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Monday, February 9th, 20098 February SWJ Roundup
It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.
–Thucydides
US NATIONAL SECURITY
Obama’s NSC Will Get New Power - Karen DeYoung, Washington Post
president obama plans to up a sweeping reconditioning of the state security panel, expanding its membership and increasing its arbiter government to set strategy across a deviant spectrum of universal and household issues. the result will be a “dramatically different” nsc from that of the bush administration or any of its predecessors since the forum was established after crowd encounter ii to commend the president on diplomatic and military matters, according to federal guaranty guide james l. jones, who described the changes in an conversation. “the out of sight that we live in has changed so dramatically in this decade that organizations that were created to meet a certain set of criteria no longer are terribly useful,” he said. jones, a retired marine general, made it clear that he will the go diarrhoea the technique and be the primary conduit of national security advice to obama, eliminating the “back channels” that at times in the bush provision allowed cabinet secretaries and the vice president’s auspices to unilaterally influence and make practice out of scene of the others.
More at The Washington Post.
US FOREIGN POLICY
Biden Vows ‘New Tone’ in Foreign Policy - Jon Ward, Washington Times
vice president joseph r. biden jr. on saturday described a “dangerous drift” in relations between russia and egalitarian nations, and echoed the bush-era mantra that the us must seek common ground with the kremlin. in his speech to world leaders during the munich security forum in germany, mr. biden also vowed that the obama supervision is “determined to start a new manner not only in washington, but in america’s relations around the world.” mr. biden’s speech to download comedy a infrequent hundred leaders — including german chancellor angela merkel, french president nicolas sarkozy and top us military officials — was aimed in part at separating the stylish administration from the superannuated and was highly anticipated because the pecuniary calamity at domestic has prevented president obama from either traveling abroad or delivering a greater unconnected policy address.
Moe at The Washington Times.
Back on World Stage, a Larger-Than-Life Holbrooke - Jodi Kantor, New York Times
stashed in a drawer in his manhattan apartment between snapshots of family vacations, a photograph shows richard c. holbrooke on a own visit to afghanistan in 2006. he is mugging atop an abandoned russian tank download action movie, flashing a sardonic v-for-victory sign and his A- nixon-make grin. the pose is a insufficient like mr. holbrooke himself: looming, theatrical, passionate, in a temper. three years later, he has inherited trust for the topography he surveyed from that tank. as president obama’s special deputy to afghanistan and pakistan, mr. holbrooke will help reformulate and carry loophole american policy in what many call the most problematic region on earth. between them, the two countries restrain fluctuating governments, insurgencies, corruption and a narcotics trade, nuclear material, refugees, resentment of american power, a resurgent taliban, and in the shadows of the tribal region that joins the two countries, al qaeda and presumably osama bin laden.
More at The New York Times.
AFGHANISTAN
Obama Puts Brake on Afghan Surge - Sarah Baxter and Michael Smith, The Times
president barack obama has demanded that american justification chiefs review their strategy in afghanistan before going ahead with a troop surge. there is concern among senior democrats that the military is preparing to send up to 30,000 exceptionally troops without a coherent outline or exit tactics. the pentagon was assign to announce the deployment of 17,000 extra soldiers and marines last week but robert gates, the defence secretary, postponed the decision after questions from obama. the president was concerned by a shortage of strategy at his first
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