Rajiv has the rare gift of being able to folk coast on shop palm details. He paints a broad pictures. He listens more than he takes. He speaks to generals frankly, but so do the grunts and the other minor characters who drive the plot of any major story. This month marks the tenth anniversary of george w. Bushs invasion of iraq. Nothing written or said better explains the resulting folly than rajivs book, life in the emrad city, the green zone. And yesterday again, rajiv, gives us detail, the new book, Little America. Right now these days, a shortterm sequester to find 80 billion, but over the next decade we have to scrape up three to five trillion, which is just about what we managed to squander on an iraq war that left so many dead and so many more people who hate us. So lets start there. In the front piece of imperial city, he quotes t. E. Lawrence who advised his british superiors in 1917, do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the arabs do it tolerably than you do i
Committee. How does cso play into this . We try to work with everyone that you mentioned. We want to be aggregators of talent and good work that has gone on. For example, something as simple as analytics, we have a metadata analyst in our shop now, but we want him to be an aggregator of aggregators. I keep saying you have to be made silver on steroids nate silver on steroids. We cannot run enough staff to review and it turns out the Intelligence Community loves being called by the state department. They are flattered by it. They want their work respected and called upon. It is not hard. Often times, in the military community, there might have been times when the state department has not been as friendly to these other partners as they could be. Particularly when you get to Something Like policymaking, there has been this secret formula like kentucky fried chicken, you have to go into the back room and no one can tell you what the elements are. I happen to believe the process should be
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