While You Were at War . . .

In every administration, there are usually only about a dozen barons who can really initiate and manage meaningful changes in national security policy. For most of 2006, some of these critical slots in the Bush administration have been vacant, such as the deputy secretary of state (empty since Robert B. Zoellick left for investment bank Goldman Sachs) and the deputy director of national intelligence (with Gen. Michael V. Hayden now CIA director). And with ... Full Story »

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Richard Stout
4.6
by Richard Stout - Oct. 1, 2008

Mainly because of Clarke's extensive working-experience with national security policy, this story scores very highly with regard to information, context, and trust. Ironically, the issue of global warming - caused primarily by the production of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels - has been supplanted by Iraq - a war caused primarily by securing US access to these fossil fuels.

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