The elections came off, so that’s a good sign, but when one rereads this Michael Rubin piece on some of the bad decisions made in after-the-fall-of-Saddam Iraq, one can’t help but be a little underwhelmed by the Negroponte choice.
He’s also a State Department kinda guy–does that put him in the position to be able to shake up the intel world? I always thought it had to be a real heavyweight for the DNI position to mean much.
But I really don’t know. I look forward to hearing from Rich and others though–Rich wrote probably the most thorough piece after-the-fall Iraq there is.