I assume everyone on FR knows who Ambassador Khalizad is by this time?
I assume everyone on FR knows who Ambassador Khalizad is by this time?
You what what happens when you assume?
Dr. Zalmay Mamozy Khalilzad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalmay_Khalilzad
Dr. Zalmay Mamozy Khalilzad (Pashtu/Persian) (born 22 March 1951) is the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq. He is the highest-ranking native Afghan and Muslim in the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush.
Khalilzad's previous assignment was as the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan. On February 12, 2007, the White House submitted Khalilzad's nomination to the Senate to become U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.[1]. In Iraq, he will be be replaced by Ryan Crocker, the current ambassador to Pakistan.
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Personal life
Khalilzad is married to Cheryl Benard, who is a political analyst with the RAND Corporation and the author of several books including Civil Democratic Islam, a controversial study of political attitudes in the Middle East, and the science-fiction feminist novel Turning on the Girls. Khalilzad and Benard have two sons, Alexander, 23 and Maximilian, 15. Alexander is currently a student at Stanford Law School
Career history
In 1984 Khalilzad accepted a one-year Council on Foreign Relations fellowship to join the State Department, where he worked for Paul Wolfowitz, then the director of Policy Planning.
From 1985 to 1989, Khalilzad served in President Ronald Reagan's administration as a senior State Department official advising on the Soviet war in Afghanistan and the Iran-Iraq war. During this time he was the State Department's Special Advisor on Afghanistan to Undersecretary of State Michael H. Armacost. In this role he developed and guided the international program to promote the merits of a Mujahideen-led Afghanistan to oust the Soviet occupation. From 1990-1992, Khalilzad later served under President George H. W. Bush in the Defense Department as Deputy Undersecretary for Policy Planning.
Between 1993 and 2000, Khalilzad was the Director of the Strategy, Doctrine, and Force Structure at the RAND Corporation. During this time, he helped found RAND's Center for Middle Eastern Studies as well as "Strategic Appraisal," a periodic RAND publication. He also authored several influential monographs, including "The United States and a Rising China" and "From Containment to Global Leadership? America and the World After the Cold War."
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