Posted on 12/09/2006 7:59:56 AM PST by veronica
WASHINGTON -- Zalmay Khalilzad, who was announced this week as leaving as U.S. ambassador to Iraq, is the leading prospect to replace John Bolton as envoy to the United Nations.
President Bush was reported by aides as looking for someone who approximates Bolton's combination of toughness and diplomatic skill and has tentatively decided on Khalilzad. A native of Afghanistan, he has served in government posts dating back to 1985 and is the highest-ranking Muslim in the Bush administration.
Speculation on a new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations to succeed John Bolton is focusing on the current U.S. ambassador in Iraq, Khalilzad, and a former U.S. deputy ambassador at the U.N., Richard Williamson. A footnote: State Department sources have said Andrew Card, who on April 14 finished five years as White House chief of staff, was interested in the UN post and was a dark horse to get it. However, he never made any such desire known to the president and is not being considered for the UN.
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The fact that you even ask this question proves you're an idiot.
Khalilzad has pulled this country's cookies out of the fire; he has been a single handed, one stop shop crisis manager in 2 theaters. If not for him, both Afgahnistan and Iraq would have been lost by now.
This guy should be TIME's man of the Year.
A good choice for the UN.
Now you're talking .... not.
Could you read about Mr. Khalilzad before you run your mouth? He's been a national hero since 9/11....the essential man.
Will he take his oath on the Koran?
Is he still a Unocal consultant?
How, why, what? Give some details. All you offer is rhetoric. What, specifically, has he done to save Afghanistan and Iraq?
Do you know anything about him, other than that he's Muslim? I don't.
I'd like to know more. What have you got?
Well, doing a Google search I see there is an article at Counterpunch that deems Khalilzad "The Neocon's Bagman to Baghdad" - so maybe he's not so bad after all...:)
You're talking about fundamentalist Muslims, right?
But American Muslims already think they are standing up for the U.S. That's why they voted Democrat. ;)
Can he be trusted? Where are his highest and strongest loyalties?
I am glad to see this as a possibility as well.
Try Google...it's a new thing the kids have just come up with.
Try Google...it's a new thing the kids have just come up with.
May the Lord hold ambassador Kirkpatrick in the palm of His hand, as she looks down on the disaster that is called the U.N.
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