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I read today that Condoleeza Rice has been thinking a lot about my country.
QUESTION: Can you tell us anything about the internal meetings the Secretary had yesterday here on Iraq and what sort of the objective was? Is there a review going on within the Department about policy? I know there’s one in the Defense Department going on.
MR. MCCORMACK: Right. She’s been doing — like I said, she’s been doing a lot of thinking over the past month and a half, two months about Iraq; certainly as it relates specifically to the State Department and more broadly. But the primary focus is on the State Department’s role in Iraq and are we pursuing the proper policies, are we seeking the right objectives, you know, are we using the right means to achieve those objectives, following the right strategies and right tactics. So this is something she’s been doing, leading an informal group here in the State Department the past month and a half or so. And as you point out, the Department of Defense is engaged in a similar kind of exercise as are other agencies, I believe. So this is a continuing conversation here in the Department as well as over at the White House. They’re getting together and starting to talk a little bit about what their findings are and what their thinking is.
Now, as for any sort of formal, you know, formal policy reviews, I’ll leave it to my White House colleagues to describe how they view these efforts. But it is, from our perspective here in the State Department, yeah, it is — it’s a review of, you know, are we doing the right things? Are we doing everything that we possibly can? Are we doing the right things?
I already knew that:
Ali
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Note to Condi:
Stop thinking about it.
It would be great if our government paid LESS attention to other people’s countries. Or if they treated other countries AS countries, and not brainless pawns sitting atop resources.