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[QUOTE]Originally posted by David Sands: [QB] Sol: Nothing I would wholly disagree with you on that. I simply haven't had the time to follow this story like the others, but I've heard it said that he's not such a left-field candidate as his opponents would claim. I know that when the cabinet assignments were being made in early 2001, there was something of a debate over whether he should have been put in the Defense Department. There were some that would have preferred him in the State Department since his area of expertise is East Asia. Now, precisely what subspecialties he proficient in, I can't say I know. But I'm not sure that's as important as many think. Past a certain point, another decade spent on a specialty only results in diminishing returns. A technocracy is one approach to take with government, but it's not one that always results in the kind of coordinated change that the current administration thinks the world needs. And appointing from within the specialties that might give someone the qualifications on paper isn't a prerequisite to doing the job well subsequently. E.g., Earl Warren had no judicial experience before his tenure with the Supreme Court. He did pretty well by the estimations of many. Another example is Vaclav Havel. He didn't have much government experience as a playwright, but he did an acceptable job as president that needed to rebuild after the disaster of Communism. What seems important about his appointment is not so much that he's a whiz with banking (which I doubt he's [i]completely[/i] unknowledgeable in), but that he's what industrial-organizational psychologists call a "change agent". He's there to shift the focus of the culture from one set of values to another. I suppose that could be characterized as an appointment based in part on ideology. But it's not like the other side doesn't do the same thing. Presidents have been appointing agents of their ideas since the dawn of the Republic. I suppose what I'm trying to get at is that the appointment shouldn't be criticized because it's [i]ideological[/i] and because his background in international banking is not as deep as that of those who have spent lifetimes on these issues, but because there are specific policies and ideals that Wolfowitz brings to the table that are incompatible with interests of those he would be serving. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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