Back at the hotel, I met with General Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. While I was making these points in a speech to Japanese students at Waseda University, Hillary went on her own charm offensi I thought Baker had done a good job at State, except on Bosnia, where I felt the administration should have opposed the ethnic cleansing more vigorously. Musharraf’s ascendancy had one immediate consequence: the program to send Pakistani commandos into Afghanistan to catch or kill Osama bin Laden was canceled.
me something to take back to Barak, who was off the wall because Ben-Ami and Sher had gone as far as they had and gotten nothing in return. America is full of people deeply committed to their very diverse faiths. I had a hard time believing it, too, but that’s what happened. I thought back over the years to my high school classmates who had died in Vietnam and to the man I’d helped when I was in Moscow in 1970, who was searching for information about his missing son.
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