It’s hard to imagine something more cynical than the White House exploiting Middle East convulsions — in which many innocents on all sides are dying in real time — to divide Americans at home in order to try and squeeze through the Senate confirmation of the pugnacious radicalizer and international de-stabilizer, John Bolton.
Senator Lugar is now considering options on how to manage action on John Bolton’s renomination to serve as Ambassador to the United Nations — requiring confirmation by the United States Senate. Technically, Bolton was renominated last September when his recess appointment went into affect.
This is unofficial, but word is that Senator Richard Lugar has called a hearing about John Bolton’s confirmation status for next Thursday. More later.
Both sides in favor and opposed to John Bolton being confirmed by the U.S. Senate in this Congressional Session are drawing their battle plans. TWN and Bolton Watch are big parts of the picture.
NEW YORK–I’ve just seen two reports about absolutely looney Bush administration steps in Iraq and Lebanon that have more to do with public relations management than they do, in either case, with “on the ground realities.
Today, TWN is heading to New York after a successful planning retreat in Pittsburgh. Planning to hear George Soros this evening speak about his new book, The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror at a meeting hosted by Eric Alterman and The Century Foundation.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will head to Israel end of this week. Let’s just hope that she’s not going to ask to lead a tank brigade herself and that she actually is going to finally push Israel, Hezbollah, and Hamas to stand down.
The costs of America’s invasion and occupation of Iraq have tied up a staggering amount of resources that could have otherwise been deployed to great and necessary purposes elsewhere — at home and abroad.
(This is a guest post by Daniel Levy, policy director of the Geneva Initiative; Tel Aviv, Israel and as of Thursday this week the new Fellow and Director of the Middle East Initiative at the New America Foundation and Century Foundation) 10 Comments on the Current Crisis in the Middle East by Daniel Levy Comments…
Kenichi Ohmae, one of Japan’s better known elder futurists, once wrote a best-seller, Borderless World — which thought through what eventually became known as globalization and the integration that has come to some corners of the world with the information age.
