Duncan Smith, Cummings claims, is "the symptom rather than cause of a party desperately short of the political essentials: understanding, talent, will and adaptation".
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"Collectively, this training and experience provide Mr. Klein with the extensive management, educational, administrative, business, analytic, policy and political skills essential to the chancellorship," the waiver request said.
But all their work will have been wasted if the politicians and diplomats, in Washington at least as much as Kabul, do not deliver the political approach essential for stabilising Afghanistan.
Pentagon and CENTCOM officials, however, questioned whether Musharraf retained the political legitimacy essential for success in the counterinsurgency campaign that they now believed would last for five or more years.
Among the accessories (too little referenced in this show) is a dangling purse in the shape of an ashtray — a symbol of the political incorrectness essential to the JPG work.
In addition to having the political stability essential for trade, the Fāṭimids encouraged commerce by their low tariff policy and their noninterference in the affairs of merchants who did business in Egypt.
Historian Roderick J. Barman said that he "displayed military, organizational, and political talents essential to what is now termed 'counterinsurgency'".
Then, through initiatives like a yearly summer camp in Maine, they "equip them with the skills and relationships they need to accelerate social, economic, and political changes essential for peace".
