Journal entry for January 15: I
can hardly remember how I started the day, some meeting at the UN, I
believe. I had two there today and then ended up at the UN rep's for
dinner. (He is being canned, in part because USAID doesn't like
him.) In between, I had Ken Bacon to my house for a meeting with him
and his staff. He was press spokesman for the Pentagon under
Clinton.... We had a good chat; he is CEO of some refugee-related NGO, maybe a
Demo front organization. I sought to put out a balanced, nuanced
picture of reality here. He seemed to buy it.
Mikie
(Mckinley) and Mike (Ranneberger) come back tomorrow for one more day of trying to
micro-manage my embassy and me. I sent a few cables this weekend
that may take some of the wind from USAID's sails as they try to
parley seeing burning villages into a declaration of war against the
thugs we happen to be working with now. But tomorrow I plan to sleep
in and find some time to open my present.
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