Morning Coffee - 6 March 2009

Welcome to Morning Coffee, brought to you by Lindsay Beyerstein with additional links from the UN Dispatch team. Every morning we survey foreign affairs and foreign policy news so you don't have to. We begin with the "Starting Five" items of the day -- these may not always appear on A-1, but they *are* the kinds of stories that will be buzzing in foreign capitals, the UN and wherever foreign policy minds roam.
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Are our foreign service officers up to the task in Iraq? "[T]he State Department shows signs of wanting to do less in Iraq at a moment when both the Iraqis and the withdrawal strategy depends on it doing more. Overwhelmingly, what I’ve heard is that younger foreign service officers, the under-35 set that has served in Iraq, Afghanistan and other places throughout the Muslim world, are pushing against the tendency of their older career-employee counterparts, who are more traditional and more embassy-centric."
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