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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
I think he's talking about domestic policy, not foreign policy, and the guys you mention are all on the latter side. I say that without going back to check the article to confirm that I'm right, but all the examples I can think of off the top of my head were domestic. (This was surely written long before the events of this week.)
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I think you're largely right in that Reed uses DiIulio and O'Neill as examples (and, I think, focused on O'Neill's domestic concerns instead of Iraq).
Reed does have a gift for the turn of phrase, though. My favorite observation:
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O'Neill becomes so desperate for an honest broker that he pleads with, of all people, Vice President Cheney: "[We] need to be better about keeping politics out of the policy process. We need firewalls. The political people are there for presentation and execution, not for creation." By the time he left, O'Neill actually pined for the less political days of the Nixon White House: "The biggest difference between then and now is that our group was mostly about evidence and analysis, and Karl, Dick, Karen, and the gang seemed to be mostly about politics."
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