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Meta-journalist Ted Gup has an interesting critique of the CIA's corporate business model in Slate:
"The real danger of a CIA that surrenders itself to a business model is that it may come to believe, as many fear it already has, that the customer is always right," Gup writes. "In the intelligence business, that is the one sure way to bankruptcy."
In Baghdad, mortar rounds were fired into the compound that houses the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority. Fareed Zakaria opines against the push for Iraqification as a plausible US force reduction strategy, but offers no alternative other than the long hard slog Rumsfeld anticipates. Having lived in two NATO-occupied entities, where there was minimal aggression by the local population demonstrated against western forces, I just don't see how the US can win in Iraq using the current model. It will always be easier for would-be terrorists to foment chaos and violence than it will be for US troops to foment stability and security. Maybe the best solution is Nato-ization of the Iraq mission, something General Wesley Clark would be uniquely qualified to oversee...Then again, there's no need to wait for the 2004 elections to try to Nato-ize Iraq. After all, the US has already turned to NATO to take over the Afghan mission.