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 One Reform Worth Rushing
 
   THERE IS ONE recommendation in the report from the Sept. 11 commission that ought to be implemented quickly but that risks being forgotten. The existing presidential appointments system, which causes large numbers of executive-branch slots to stand vacant, needs  to be overhauled. No government can function well when a fifth of its top positions are empty, as is  estimated to be the case in the Bush administration. And the precise design of the national security bureaucracy will be of secondary importance six months from now if a new administration is unable to get its appointees installed. The time to address this problem is now, before the election, because in a sane appointments system this would also be the time  both candidates would prepare their national security teams for confirmation.
 
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