[Argus]

His first official act should be a proposal to relocate UN headquarters to Mogadishu.

[Dustbunny]

Can't we all just get along. Working toward the new tone. /sarc

[divine_moment_of_facts]

I just read that on Drudge.. Disbelief.. unless we are trying to prove how Muslim friendly we are then at the last minute nominate someone else..

[BigFinn]

...the highest-ranking Muslim in the Bush administration.

Sorry, can't ultimately trust him.

[Gideon Reader]

You are Eff'en kidding, right? Right?

How about Synphonia McKinney? She's looking for work.
Just about as good.
Geeeeez, can't we catch a break and maybe by some weird and unusual accident get a competent spokesmodel for the USA, in there.

[kittymyrib]

I thought for sure this was Scrappleface or the Onion...but sadly, the joke is on us....

[traderrob6]

I see nothing in his biography at Wik to make me wary of this guy. The only thing that appears to have many on this thread hysterical is the fact that he's Muslim which in my mind is NOT by itself indicative of untrustworthiness or inability to look out for our interests.

[Right_in_Virginia]

A native of Afghanistan, he has served in government posts dating back to 1985 and is the highest-ranking Muslim in the Bush administration.

It might be a nice change to have a Muslim standing up for American goals in the UN. Who knows, it could encourage Muslims in the U.S. to do the same.

[mjp]

A native of Afghanistan, he has served in government posts dating back to 1985 and is the highest-ranking Muslim in the Bush administration

Can he be trusted? Where are his highest and strongest loyalties?

[M Kehoe]

Good afternoon. This is off topic...

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.

5.56mm

[traumer]

"and is the highest-ranking Muslim in the Bush administration...."

APPEASEMENT continues

[marsh_of_mists]

Excerpts from Wikipedia:

He is the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, having been sworn in on June 21, 2005...Khalilzad's previous assignment was as the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan.

He is a member of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) and was one of the signers of the January 26, 1998, PNAC Letter sent to President Bill Clinton. Khalilzad is also a former board member of Friends of Afghanistan, which received extensive U.S. funding.

An ethnic Pashtun, he was born in the city of Mazari Sharif, in northern Afghanistan....Khalilzad received his doctorate at the University of Chicago, where he studied closely with strategic thinker Albert Wohlstetter, who is a prominent nuclear deterrence thinker and an opponent to the disarmament treaties.

From 1979 to 1989, Dr. Khalilzad was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. During this time he worked closely with Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Carter administration's architect of the policy supporting the Afghan Mujahadeen resistance to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan.

His wife, Cheryl Benard, is a political analyst with the RAND Corporation. They have two children, Alexander and Maximilian.

From 1985 to 1989, Khalilzad served as a senior State Department official advising on the Soviet war in Afghanistan and the Iran-Iraq war

Khalilzad served under former U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush as special assistant to the president for Southwest Asia, the Near East and North Africa. From 1991 to 1992, he was a senior Defense Department official for policy planning, serving as a counsellor to Donald Rumsfeld. Khalilzad initially viewed the Taliban as a potential force for stability and as counter balance to Iran, but his views changed over time, especially after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Between 1993 and 1999, Dr. Khalilzad was Director of the Strategy, Doctrine and Force Structure program for the RAND Corporation's Project Air Force. RAND is a think-tank primarily focused on "national security" issues...and now closely linked to the neoconservatives (Donald Rumsfeld was chairman 1981-1986).

Khalilzad co-authored the RAND study, "The United States and a Rising China".

Dr. Khalilzad headed the Bush-Cheney transition team for the Department of Defense and has been a Counselor to Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld.

Khalilzad wrote several articles on the subject of the value of U.S. global leadership in the mid-90's. The specific scenarios for conflict he envisioned in the case of a decline in American power have made his writings extremely popular in the world of competitive high school and college policy debate.

Just for the record.

[Bean Counter]

Hard to believe, and he'll be right at home at the UN.

More evidence of the continuation of the Bush surrender to Political Correctness, and further evidence that Bush is an Excellent Republican, and no Conservative.

[jrooney]

I am disgusted from some of the posts here. Do you all want to be the party of "whites only"? Get out your white hoods then and light your torches. Do you want to forever be known as racists? Do you want the GOP to be an irrelevant minority party forever? There are plenty of loyal honest Americans that are staunch conservatives that are non-white!

Zalmay Khalilzad has been an excellent representative of the Bush administration in the middle east. If we or Israel has to attack Iran or Syria in the next two years, I for one would like him at the UN to slap down any Islamist Muslim nations and the EU that object. Some here on FR are starting to look like a bunch of uninformed ignorant racists that give the GOP a bad name.

[pissant]

Decent choice, in my view.

[nuconvert]

I like Khalilzad

[COEXERJ145]

This thread is a really sad display.

One would think people who claim to be conservative wouldn't be making comments like we see on this thread.

My personal favorite is the asinine suggestion that Muslims should be disqualified from public office on the basis of their religion.

I guess the Constitution doesn't mean a lot of some here on FR.

[TET1968]

Another nail in Israel's coffin.

[Albert Barr]

What has Bolton done in the UN that has been so great? Other than helping Ms. Rice sell Isreal down the river. I hear all the praise, but I don't see the results. Maybe it's the mustache?

flame suit on.

[Irish Eyes]

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/051219fa_fact2

Interesting article from the Newyorker

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalmay_Khalilzad


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