Readers may be interested in the attached critique of the 2006 National Security Strategy prepared for the Stanley Foundation by Larry Korb and Caroline Wadhams. The Administration's new obsession du jour -- Iran -- features prominently. The study may be opened through the pdf link.

http://www.stanleyfoundation.org/reports/p...d=061206&t=pdf1

Policy Analysis Brief
A Critique of the Bush Administration's National Security Strategy
The Stanley Foundation

The Bush administration's latest plan for US national security is an unrealistic one that offers few achievable goals to safeguard American interests, contradicts the actual policies and actions of the administration, and reveals an absence of introspection and lessons learned from the mistakes of the first term.

What the United States needs instead is a strategy that places the threats to our security in the proper context and one that integrates all of the tools of US foreign policy—economic, military, and diplomatic—in order to find effective solutions to national security challenges.

Those are the conclusions of Lawrence Korb and Caroline Wadhams, who have authored a Stanley Foundation Policy Analysis Brief titled "A Critique of the Bush Administration's National Security Strategy."

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