Getting the Middle East Back on Our Side

NY Times ^ | January 4, 2007 | BRENT SCOWCROFT

[neverdem]

Brent Scowcroft was national security adviser to Presidents Gerald R. Ford and George H. W. Bush. He is now president of the Forum for International Policy.

[Pukin Dog]

Scowcroft is also a man who never has an opinion until his finger has been in the air for a week or so.

He is Captain Obvious.

[jwalsh07]

He also was a member of that august group of thinkers who allowed islamofascism to flourish for the past 30 years unabetted. Dereliction of duty comes to mind.

[Rodney King]

Back on Our Side

It it ever was on our side, it is only because we had a shared aversion to communism.

[Ken522]

...But the report accomplished a great deal. ...

That statement alone is enough to discredit anything that follows, ideas wallowing in utter stupidity but dressed up in intelligent-sounding, wordy phrases.

[rmlew]

Brent Scowcroft was national security adviser to Presidents Gerald R. Ford and George H. W. Bush. He is now president of the Forum for International Policy.
He now works for the Saudis.

[A.A. Cunningham]

The writings of Brent "Hang the Kurds out to dry" Scowcroft are best used as either fishwrap or lining the bottom of a birdcage.

[cripplecreek]

I'm a lot less interested in getting them on our side than I am in putting them in their place.

[samadams2000]

Follow the money. In a real world you wouldnt criticize someone who gave their time for public service, but that was before the official revolving door was established, and honest folks started taking money from foreign sources and try to peddle their wares. This leads to immediate discredit Im afraid.

[Jim Noble]

Getting the Middle East Back on Our Side

Anyone who thinks the "Middle East" has EVER been on "our side" is an incorrigible moron.

They are our mortal enemies - all of them.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Members Lee Hamilton and James Baker at United States Institute of Peace for Iraq Study Group Lee Hamilton, left, and James Baker explain the purpose of the Iraq Study Group to journalists at a press conference held at USIP. The Iraq Study Group was a bipartisan group of prominent Americans. It was led by co-chairs James A. Baker, III, the nation’s 61st secretary of state and honorary chairman of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, and Lee H. Hamilton, former congressman and director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

The other members of the study group included: Lawrence S. Eagleburger, Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Edwin Meese III , Sandra Day O'Connor, Leon E. Panetta, William J. Perry, Charles S. Robb, and Alan K. Simpson.

Vernon Jordan? Leon Panetta? Jamie Gorelick was more qualified!

[Cicero]

But the report accomplished a great deal.

Indeed it did.

The liberal press puffed it up beforehand, so expectations were huge. The left was salivating. They could hardly wait.

Then, when it came out and they had a chance to look at it, it was so far out to lunch that even the moonbats threw up their hands and gave up on it.

Which basically gave President Bush another chance.

[RebelBanker]

I had a buddy at Ft. Benning who was a State Department brat - he grew up in the Middle East. He was convinced that all of the Mohammedeans would love us if we would just abandon Israel. I just laughed at him.

[D.P.Roberts]

I couldn't care less about their squabbles. All that needs done is to tell Halliburton to get us the oil, no questions asked, and get out of the way.

[oldbill]

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How I Cover My Tracks and Look Good So I Can Be Appointed To More of These Commissions

[ccmay]

I don't want the Middle East by our side. I want them under our boot.

-ccm

[Sans-Culotte]

I don't want the Middle East by our side. I want them under our boot.

It's like saying we want the Nazis on our side...

[PhiKapMom]

Another name I wish I had never heard again! Are these people coming out of the woodwork now?

[elhombrelibre]

Isn't Scrowcroft in the pay of the Saudi royal family?

[neverdem]

Isn't Scrowcroft in the pay of the Saudi royal family?

I don't know, but what does that have to do with the merits of his article? He obviously appreciates what failure in Iraq will cause to the U.S. and the region. Would a regional war between the Shia and Sunnis be in the interest of the U.S. and oil dependent allies?