Blackmoor Vituperative

The next day President-elect Bush came to the White House for the same meeting I had had with his father eight years earier. […] He was putting together an experiened team from past Republican administrations who believed the biggest security issues were the need for national missile defense and Iraq. I told him that based on the last eight years, I thought his biggest security problems, in order, would be Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda; the absence of peace in the Middle East; the stand off between nuclear powers India and Pakistan, and the ties of the Pakistanis to the Taliban and al Qaeda; North Korea; and then Iraq.[…]

He listened to what I had to say without much comment then changed the subject…

(from My Life, W.J. Clinton, pg. 1503-1504)