‘What’s Going to Happen with Feith?’ “If the administration is looking for a scapegoat for the situation it faces in Iraq, Feith is the most likely candidate both because of his relative obscurity compared to other administration hawks and the fact that, of virtually all of them, his ideas—particularly on the Middle East—may be the most radical.” — Jim Lobe (who writes for Inter Press Service, an international newswire, and for Foreign Policy in Focus), tompaine.com

No Exit:

While President George W. Bush insists that “America will never run,” a fierce debate is raging just below the surface of his administration over when and how America should exit from Iraq. The debate pits those who favor a massive effort to turn Iraq into a beacon of democracy for the Middle East against those who want to concentrate the U.S. mission on defeating insurgents so American troops can return home. The wisdom of a war against Iraq had few doubters within the Bush administration. Yet this consensus obscured a deep division over the war’s purpose. We could characterize this as a split between “democratic imperialists” and “assertive nationalists.” — Ivo H. Daalder (Special Adviser on National Security at the Center for American Progress and co-author of America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy (Brookings Press, 2003), tompaine.com.