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The president is fighting a twilight struggle against two cunning, ruthless foes--not just Islamofascism, but also the American foreign-policy bureaucracy. That bureaucracy has recently lashed out at George W. Bush. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff for Colin Powell, wrote in an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times that Bush's foreign policy had been made by a "secretive, little-known cabal" led by Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. Secretive little-known cabals ought to be run by people less well-known than the vice president and the secretary of defense. Wilkerson argues that the State Department has the primary burden of shaping American foreign policy, but since the first president to heed the ...