As a long-suffering observer of English football, I was once easily persuaded by the foreign appointment.
Wenger would be an excellent choice, even if it would be a pity to go back to a foreign appointment so soon after re-establishing the principle of England being run by the English.
In the last week, General Powell, the first of Mr. Bush's foreign policy appointments, appeared to march to a different drummer from that of his colleagues -- Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser -- in areas of importance to Republicans.
And with the bipartisan, consensus-building foreign policy appointments he announced on Monday, the president-elect showed his hand or, to be most precise, his left and right hands.
And many of his key foreign policy appointments are people who have not given high priority to Europe, according to Moises Naim, editor of the quarterly magazine Foreign Policy.
Sen. John Kerry's rationale for rejecting Jim DeMint's request for resources for the Honduras trip was that DeMint has blocked consideration of two key Obama Latin America foreign policy appointments.
Meanwhile, the transition confirmed a more junior foreign policy appointment, hiring Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland, a Reagan-era official and Fox News analyst, as deputy national security adviser.
American-educated Javad Zarif, an Iranian diplomat and former U.N. ambassador, has been named as Rouhani's Foreign Minister appointment, signaling that the new president is ready for reopening dialogues with the West.
The president also wields some influence in foreign policy, makes appointments to the central bank and approves the appointment of judges.
Though limited in domestic affairs, his powers in foreign policy and appointments were large.
