Move Chuck Hagel From Obama “Team B” to “Team A”

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This next week on Wednesday, 8 September at the New America Foundation a group of academics, business leaders, journalists, and other policy practitioners — organized as ‘The Afghanistan Study Group’ will formally release this new report titled “New Way Forward: Rethinking U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan.” The report can be downloaded here.

The French Connection & Middle East Talks

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(Jean-David Levitte and France President Nicolas Sarkozy) European High Representative for Foreign Affairs & Security Policy Baroness Catherine Ashton decided to head to China instead of participating in the Middle East stakeholders dinner hosted by President Obama in the Old Family Dining Room this week.

Guns, Religion and the Glenn Beck Rally

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(photo depicts participants in Glenn Beck led march on Washington; November 23, 2009) I hope that David Frum is right and that the Tea Party movement, which is growing in numbers and ferocity, will hit its limit, experience an Icarus moment, and plunge back into the fringe of American politics where pugnacious, jingoistic, narrow band…

To be a Fly on the White House Old Family Dining Room Wall. . .

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This is the roster of who is coming to dinner tonight: President Obama President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt King Abdullah of Jordan Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Quartet Representative Tony Blair According to a pool report written by Huffington Post‘s Sam Stein, the…