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Jim Baker, Savior?

by Jim Lobe
For the many, many foreign policy experts who have reached an advanced state of despair over the ever-plunging image and influence of the United States after nearly six years of the presidency of George W. Bush, the name James Baker III has an almost talismanic quality.

"Maybe if he [Bush] asks Baker to�" has become an increasingly common � and hopeful � preamble among the policy elite to sentences about whatever crisis is dominating the news that week, be it Iraq, Iran, Syria, and the Middle East generally, or, most recently, North Korea.

The assumption behind such musings is always that the former secretary of state � who, unlike other top members of the administration of President George H. W. Bush, notably former national security adviser Gen. Brent Scowcroft, has been very careful not to publicly criticize the younger Bush � is virtually the only person with the stature and diplomatic finesse to rescue crisis situations that have only gone from bad to worse � if, that is, the White House asks him to do so.

(Inter Press Service)
http://www.antiwar.com/lobe/?articleid=9845

[hogwonguy1979]

man I thought you were talking about the PTL Club's Jim Baker.

he always thought of himself as a savior

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*Beep* Cheney? Come on, mods, dial that obscenity filter back just a tad. This is nothing if not juvenile. Most of the people who post here are grownups with driver's licenses and library cards. Even the banned word hasn't been considered an obscenity since the days of Leave it to Beaver. Give this semi-articulate mob some credit.

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