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...In Washington, it was the moment when the fissures within the administration about the emerging revolution started to become apparent....
...Robert Perciasepe, the agency’s deputy administrator is often mentioned as a potential successor....
...Robert Danin, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations, says: “We are in a [US] election year, so the focus of President [Barack] Obama is largely domestic.”...
...He has battlefield experience in fighting the war against al-Qaeda in Iraq and now in Afghanistan/Pakistan, as well as tremendous experience in Washington.”...
...The Obama administration has made clear it plans to keep providing Pakistan with billions of dollars of aid, despite calls on Capitol Hill and elsewhere for Washington to rein in such assistance....
...At the State Department, Mr Nides would join Robert Hormats, a former vice-chairman at Goldman Sachs who is now undersecretary for economic, energy and agricultural affairs....
...The majority of the new groups – led by American Crossroads, created by Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie, veterans of the administration of George W. Bush – are exclusively backing Republicans....
...We’ve stood together on behalf of our nation’s veterans....
...Mr Gates, a veteran Washington pragmatist and Central Intelligence Agency professional, is seen by Pentagon insiders as one of the more successful secretaries of defence in recent years....
...I suspect we will hear a lot more of this when the new administration hits town, much as we did in the 1990s when vice president Al Gore was put in charge of “re-inventing” government....
...All this led Robert Kagan to publish an op-ed in The Washington Post titled “Vive what difference?”...
...Stephanie, Washington, D.C. CB: I suppose every president (with the exception of another one from Illinois, named Lincoln) came into office promising more than he could deliver. I think Mr....
...Robert Gates, though steeped in the unaccountable Washington establishment, is showing signs of being a bird of a different feather....
...There is a huge movement across the country of Iraqi veterans and Persian Gulf War veterans who are demanding a change in the policy....
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