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Tuesday, September 26, 2006

The NIE

Charles Krauthammer on Fox News with Brit Hume tonight made a comment that expresses my feelings exactly about these National Intelligence Estimates: this is Junior High School analysis. If this is what the President is getting for a budget of $50 billion, scrap the whole organization and give the money to the Boy Scouts.

It's utter rubbish, declaring the blindingly obvious as if it were a deep insight, making assertions that are simply not true (about poverty being a root cause of radicalism), and providing no guidance to policy makers beyond stating that winning the war means winning the war.

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