This is a guest post exclusive to The Washington Note by Col. Lawrence B. Wilkerson, who is former chief of staff of the Department of State during the term of Secretary of State Colin Powell. Lawrence Wilkerson is also Pamela Harriman Visiting Professor at the College of William & Mary.
Today between 11 am and noon EST, Steve Coll and I will be moderating a transatlantic new media roundtable discussion with UK Foreign Minister David Miliband.
I am about to fly off to Germany and had to miss the celebrity-edged White House Correspondents Association dinner last night because of commitments out of town — but sounded like a lot of fun.
Second Lietenant Sandy Tsao is being discharged from the military for informing her chain of command that she is gay.
The Washington Note‘s publisher will not be at the WHCA Dinner this year as he’ll be traveling, but the blog will be represented by others in the field. But I just got a bit of an odd first.
I am planning visits to all of the “surplus countries” in the next couple of weeks. On Monday and Tuesday, I will be in Berlin speaking at one of the sessions of the “online forums” of the Transatlantic Dialogue sponsored by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation. And then on May 18th, I’ll be in Beijing.
Barack Obama has appointed a hyperactive director of faith-based initiatives, Josh DuBois, and sees little problem continuing the blurring of church and state that George W. Bush and Bill Clinton initiated in their terms.
Quite a number of serious and informed observers predict a spike in mass casualty violence hitting this week in Pakistan.
Kevin Nealer was a Fulbright professor of trade law & policy and is Guest Lecturer at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. Markets generally take a “Stop them before they kill again!” approach to Democrats and trade policy.
I’m still in Doha, and Dennis Ross was here in Qatar yesterday meeting government officials and discussing America’s course on Iran. Now, there are denials from the Iranian press that Dennis Ross and two other senior government officials, including Puneet Talwar of the National Security Council, are planning a journey to Tehran.