On Thursday afternoon, I’ll be chairing a session with former Malaysia Deputy Prime Minister and current Leader of the Opposition in the Malaysian Parliament Anwar Ibrahim, someone I greatly admire for his ongoing temerity in staring down thugs in his own government.
This is a guest note by Harlan Ullman, Chairman of the Killowen Group that advises leaders of government and business and Senior Advisor at Washington, D.C.’s Atlantic Council. (photo courtesy of UPI) Two ticking packages slipped into the White House.
The US position on Egypt continues to evolve, but President Obama is increasingly caught in a vise between advocacy for “regime change” in Egypt and less disruptive “regime adjustment.” Regime adjustment is not what the protests in Egypt have been about.
A USA Today / Gallup poll finds that 72% of Americans favor Congressional action this year to speed up the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. The party breakdown shows 86% of Democrats, 72% of independents and 61% of Republicans all favor Congressional action to speed the withdrawal.
Word is leaking out everywhere that Representative Jane Harman (D-CA) is resigning her House seat in favor of succeeding Democratic foreign policy icon Lee Hamilton as the next president of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. For Harman personally, this may be great news.
The statement below was sent to me today. It was released on February 3rd, a few days ago, but is powerful and very much worth reading.
Yesterday had a very good chat with CBS News’ Bob Orr in a program that also featured the Washington Post‘s David Ignatius. The segment also includes reports from Tahrir Square in Cairo from CBS News’ Elizabeth Palmer and Vicki Barker.
PBS News Hour had me in evening before last along with Georgetown University’s Samer Shehata and the Council on Foreign Relations’ Steven Cook who was in Tahrir Square during the early part of the protests. Judy Woodruff anchored the discussion for which there is a transcript here.
On Thursday afternoon, I participated in a very good discussion — though my comments are near the end of the hour — with To the Point‘s Warren Olney about the continuing drama in Egypt and how the White House policy response has evolved.
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Chuck Todd & Savannah Guthrie had Washington Post White House correspondent Anne Kornblut and me on The Daily Rundown yesterday — and I thought we had a good chat about the trends in US policy posture on Egypt.
