What, if anything, is wrong with the Treasury-led inter-agency review process that approved the UAE deal without telling the President, anyone in the Cabinet, or anyone in the Congress -- and what's going to be done to fix it?
How is our public diplomacy maven, the culturally-challenged Karen Hughes, going to 'win the hearts and minds' of all those who think we're doing a little unsubtle ethnic profiling of all things Arab?
And, most importantly, what exactly has our wildly dysfunctional Department of Homeland Security been doing to strengthen our seaport security? And at what cost?
These are serious questions. But don't expect serious answers. It's an election year.
Call Central Casting.
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* With apologies to Edgar Allen Poe for playing with his words (Quoth the Raven Nevermore) in his poem, "The Raven".
How is our public diplomacy maven, the culturally-challenged Karen Hughes, going to 'win the hearts and minds' of all those who think we're doing a little unsubtle ethnic profiling of all things Arab?
And, most importantly, what exactly has our wildly dysfunctional Department of Homeland Security been doing to strengthen our seaport security? And at what cost?
These are serious questions. But don't expect serious answers. It's an election year.
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* With apologies to Edgar Allen Poe for playing with his words (Quoth the Raven Nevermore) in his poem, "The Raven".
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