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resigned in 2004 just "when the going got tough," a decision he calls "unfair to the president." He wrote that he believes that Secretary of State Colin L. Powell tried to undermine President Bush by privately expressing doubts about the Iraq war, and he confirms that he pushed to have Mr. Powell removed from

ar Qadhafi Clinically Psychotic? John Matson The Financial Times Why Libya sceptics were proved badly wrong Anne-Marie Slaughter Foreign Policy Sinai's Bedouin run amok in post-Mubarak Egypt Mohamed Fadel Fahm y The National Interest Foreign-Policy Failure Dimitri K. Simes NYT Cheney Says He U

resigned in 2004 just "when the going got tough," a decision he calls "unfair to the president." He wrote that he believes that Secretary of State Colin L. Powell tried to undermine President Bush by privately expressing doubts about the Iraq war, and he confirms that he pushed to have Mr. Powell removed from

ar Qadhafi Clinically Psychotic? John Matson The Financial Times Why Libya sceptics were proved badly wrong Anne-Marie Slaughter Foreign Policy Sinai's Bedouin run amok in post-Mubarak Egypt Mohamed Fadel Fahm y The National Interest Foreign-Policy Failure Dimitri K. Simes NYT Cheney Says He U

also spawned the AQ Khan network. Despite all its help in Afghanistan, Iran was declared a triumvir in the 'axis of evil' while Secretary of State Colin Powell described Pakistan as a major ally in the Global War on Terror. Washington then of course went on to smash an Iraq that turned out not to have WMD

tive of security measures taken by the military against militant Islamists, as was seen in the past week's operations in the Sinai Peninsula. The Sinai remains a buffer zone against major military forces, but not against the paramilitaries linked to radical Islamists who have increased their activi

of February 11, Bush was flanked by Secretary of State Baker, Defense Secretary Cheney and national security adviser Brent Scowcroft. Also there was Colin Powell, a general whom I had got to know well, and to like, over the past few years and who was now head of the joint chiefs-of-staff. Given the seriousness

dat might strike with more limited territorial objectives and, under cover of his SAM batteries on the other side of the Suez Canal, advance into the Sinai. In the Lebanon war, the inquiry suggested, Yehoshua Saguy did try to warn the generals, and the government, about major risks. But individual minis

would do next. “Something in business” describes it best. But I sought the advice of a friend who, rather than leaving politics, had just entered it. Colin Powell was now the second President Bush’s Secretary of State. “Why don’t you go on the lecture circuit?” he said. The short answer was that it hadn’t occur

. After all, before Begin and Sadat went to Camp David in 1978, an almost equally tiny minority of Israelos had been in favor of withdrawing from the Sinai. Yet once they had seen the other side of the equation — full, formal peace with our most powerful neighbor — the opposition all but evaporated. The

of February 11, Bush was flanked by Secretary of State Baker, Defense Secretary Cheney and national security adviser Brent Scoweroft. Also there was Colin Powell, a general whom I had got to know well, and to like, over the past few years and who was now head of the joint chiefs-of-staff. Given the seriousness

dat might strike with more limited territorial objectives and, under cover of his SAM batteries on the other side of the Suez Canal, advance into the Sinai. In the Lebanon war, the inquiry suggested, Yehoshua Saguy did try to warn the generals, and the government, about major risks. But individual minist

would do next. "Something in business" describes it best. But I sought the advice of a friend who, rather than leaving politics, had just entered it. Colin Powell was now the second President Bush's Secretary of State. "Why don't you go on the lecture circuit?" he said. The short answer was that it hadn't occur

. After all, before Begin and Sadat went to Camp David in 1978, an almost equally tiny minority of Israelos had been in favor of withdrawing from the Sinai. Yet once they had seen the other side of the equation - full, formal peace with our most powerful neighbor - the opposition all but evaporated. The

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e writer is a former director of policy planning for the US state department HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024601 --- PAGE BREAK --- Article 3. Foreign Policy Sinai’s Bedouin run amok in post- Mubarak Egypt Mohamed Fadel Fahmy AUGUST 24, 2011 -- The landscape of Egypt's lawless North Sinai governorate is punctu

y, resigned in 2004 just “when the going got tough,” a decision he calls “unfair to the president.” He wrote that he believes that Secretary of State Colin L. Powell tried to undermine President Bush by privately expressing doubts about the Iraq war, and he confirms that he pushed to have Mr. Powell removed from t