Pentagon to reorganize policy office, add new job

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Monday unveiled a plan to reorganize its policy office and make it easier to coordinate the so-called global war on terror within the U.S. government and with international allies.

The chairmen of the House and Senate armed services committees, who must approve creation of a new assistant secretary position, were "inclined to be helpful," said Eric Edelman, undersecretary of defense for policy, who served as U.S. ambassador to Turkey from July 2003 to June 2005.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld discussed the changes with Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. John Warner, a Virginia Republican, and House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Duncan Hunter, a California Republican, he said.

Edelman acknowledged reports of past tensions between the Pentagon, State Department and other federal agencies over the war in Iraq, but said relations had improved over the last year and were now actually "remarkably smooth."

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"...so-called global war on terror". Reuters.

[bobthedrummer]

1. He was Cheney's national security advisor. He was tight with Wolfowitz,

Ledeen, Bush senior, Khalilzad and Libby-among others. His stint as Ambassador to Turkey was a fiasco.
Here's a profile on Eric S. Edelman from Right Web.
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1143

[Rose Siding]

3. I don't see why the Pentagon needs a policy office in the first place

-unless it's to deflect blame by having the same words on a bunch of different office doors. The Iraq War Group already skated (with an assist from Pat Roberts) while the whole CIA got torn up.

What are they "coordinating"? *Their* version of foreign policy with the State Dept's? -which is TASKED with foreign policy?

[eccles12]

2. More government expansion at the hands of the Republicans. nt