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Here is one of Michael HIrsh' recent articles:

9/11 -- and Counting.
Four Years In, No Clear Plan

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/09/AR2005090902473.html

Sept. 11, 2005
The Washington Post

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"Moreover, an administration that had sought to reassert U.S. power now finds itself projecting weakness. An America that was at the top of its game internationally on Sept. 10, 2001 has squandered its prestige. Iraq is draining the most powerful Army in history, America's moral standing in the world is diminished, and our policies, according to the CIA's own analysis, may have only helped to foment the jihadi movement globally. We possess less leverage over the nuclear-minded states of Iran and North Korea.

Most disturbing of all, the man who once called himself a "war president" has not formulated a well-thought-out plan for winning this war, either in public or privately within his administration. In place of a strategy, Bush mainly repeats his vague pledge to spread democracy "with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world,"

michael.hirsh@newsweek.com