The decision having been made, difficulties get into line. If IBM sets out to create a computer of a particular kind recommended by not all its scientists or directors, the decision reconfigures everything and everybody else. The scientists and suppliers and stockholders readjust their priorities, and the project goes forward. Diplomatic work is clearly necessary, but diplomatic servility, of the kind practiced by Clinton from time to time with the United Nations, is wrong, and Bush is not likely to get bogged down by it. Nobody knows the European scene better than Donald Rumsfeld, and Colin Powell also knows how to take command.
All systems are go.
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