Dream Team Suggestions from Foreign Policy Magazine contributors

[Laura PourMeADrink]

Secretary of State
Strobe Talbott (Brookings Inst.)("diplomatic skills and unflappable temperament)
James Baker ("best deal maker")
Richard Lugar ("sober, experienced and dull")
Bill Bradley ("keen understanding of statecraft")
Bill Clinton ("no one more popular in the world")
Sam Nunn ("understands about the breakup of Russia and resentments")
Chuck Hagel
Richard Holbrooke ("courageous and highly bipartisan")
Robert Zoellick (World Bank)

Secretary of Treasury
Roger Altman
Steve Forbes
Mohamed El-Erian (IMF)
Warren Buffett
Michael Bloomberg
David Lipton
Hillary Clinton ("Sense of economic needs of ordinary Americans")
James K Galbraith
Indra Nooyi (PepsiCo)


Bonus Pick:
Sarah Palin
Ambassador to Russia
" The governor's taste for hunting, plain-spoken talk, and foxy boots -- not to mention long
years of staring at Russia from Alaska 0 ensure a special relationship with Putin."

[genna]

1. You (they) cannot be serious

[Laura PourMeADrink]

2. Diverse, Interesting points of view from a dean at the Nation University of

Singapore, EVP at the Council for the United States and Italy, Author and former CIA case officer, president emeritis Council on Foreign Relations, Chief foreign affairs columist for the Financial Times, Editor of the Nation magazine, former UN undersecretary,

yes, a bunch of lighweights

[Captain Hilts]

3. Wow! Only one woman on the list. No Susan Rice, etc. nth

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. She was on there - I only list these two posts. not sure if it's on

their website - but the newest edition of the magazine is worth picking up. Rice - Ambassador to UN (2 contributors picked her for that post).

Jessica Mathews - Carnegie Endowment and Jamie Gorelick - National Security Advisor
Jane Harmon - Director of National Intelligence