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Kissinger’s Thumbs Up?

December 5, 2008

So if Kissinger thinks Obama is doing a great job picking his foreign policy team – don’t we have a problem?
By Henry A. Kissinger

Friday, December 5, 2008; Page A25

President-elect Barack Obama has appointed an extraordinary team for national security policy. On its face, it violates certain maxims of conventional wisdom: that appointing to the Cabinet individuals with an autonomous constituency, and who therefore are difficult to fire, circumscribes presidential control; that appointing as national security adviser, secretary of state and secretary of defense individuals with established policy views may absorb the president’s energies in settling disputes among strong-willed advisers.

Read the rest if you want…From the The Washington Post

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