That includes the current mission in Afghanistan as well as readiness for potential turmoil in Pakistan or hostile action by Iran.
The group includes the current chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and three House and Senate committee chairmen now involved in the cleanup who have been among the accounting industry's largest campaign recipients.
Mr Döpfner is close to Helmut Kohl, Germany's once-dominant Christian Democrat chancellor, and he dislikes the politics of the "1968 generation" of German politicians, which includes the current chancellor, Gerhard Schröder.
The liberal Social Democratic Party came in first, but its governing coalition, in aggregate, lost seats, and ceded power to a center-right partnership that includes the current Prime Minister, Venstre's Lars Løkke Rasmussen, and the rightist, tax-cutting Liberal Alliance.
Nor does Colby neglect temporary exhibitions: its ambitious program includes the current "Modernism and Abstraction: Treasures From the Smithsonian American Art Museum," a survey of 20th-century developments illustrated by artists including Hartley, Joseph Stella, Stuart Davis, Jennifer Bartlett, David Hockney and Eric Fischl.
But fighting the proposal with equal bombast is a group which includes the current Mayor of London, Labour's Ken Livingstone, the Tate Gallery director, Sir Nicholas Serota, and the White Cube gallery's Jay Jopling, as well as the artists such as Antony Gormley and Grayson Perry.
