Well, I'm not particularly supportive of this new post to begin with, but he seems like a fine choice to me. His time at State should have prepared him well for the kind of bureaucratic infighting and turf wars he's likely to encounter as he brings so many disparate groups under one umbrella. I also like that he has been on the ground in Iraq for some time, and that he had some experience with UW in Honduras. Perhaps that will lessen the likelihood of him taking an Ivory Tower approach to GWOT.
Others here are likely to have a much richer view of this, though... 
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