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~ EXCERPT ~ Friends and former colleagues say Lawrence S. Eagleburger, the only career foreign service officer to rise to the position of secretary of state, has died. Word of Eagleburger's death Saturday came from representatives of former President George H.W. Bush and former Secretary of State James Baker. No other details were immediately available. Eagleburger, who was 80, was a straightforward diplomat whose exuberant style masked a hard-driving commitment to solving foreign policy problems.

Lawrence S. Eagleburger, who briefly served as secretary of state for President George H.W. Bush, died Saturday at the age of 80. Eagleburger died in Charlottesville, Va., after a short illness, according to a family friend, Christy Reap.Few other details were immediately available.

Former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger says he's "never seen anyone who is as amateurish in the conduct of his foreign relations as this President." Eagleburger said Obama is "playing with fire here, and he's playing with dynamite and he doesn't understand it, you would think after almost two years in office he would understand it, but he doesn't."

Tell me something I have not already heard from a number of former State and Defense people already. What makes this sooooo juicy is not how he defines Obama foreign policy but how this former “HW” Secretary of State defends the current Secretary of State. “Frankly I don’t know how she’s lasted. ”The conversation starts with Eagleburger’s analysis of the Honduras situation, which he correctly describes as the democratically elected government trying to preserve democracy for Hondurans … and remove a President who was hoping to be Latin America’s next in a long line of dictators. Click here for background.

Obama Is A Charlatan Says Lawrence Eagleburger

Today on Fox Huckabee Show Lawrence Eagleburger called Obama a Charlatan. He said let me make this perfectly clear I think Obama is a Charlatan.

Video of Senator McCain quizzed on Eagleburger's comments on Governor Palin's qualifications in Foreign Affairs. Eagleburger clarifies his previous comments "with foot in mouth" and calls Obama a "Flim Flam Artist". "I made a serious mistake yesterday". "I was just plain stupid".

A former secretary of state and supporter of Republican presidential nominee John McCain says that McCain's running mate, Sarah Palin, isn't up to the task of taking over the presidency in a crisis but could become "adequate" if not "a genius in the job." Then again, added Lawrence Eagleburger, several other vice presidents were also not ready. And he said he was confident that Palin, Alaska's governor, was tough enough if called to serve. Eagleburger, who was secretary of state under President George H.W. Bush, has been cited frequently by McCain as one of several seasoned diplomats and former Cabinet...

No context whatsoever provided so we’re left to wonder in what sense they’re problematic. Problematic because they’re leery of McCain and might not turn out in force in November? Problematic because they’re the “agents of intolerance” Maverick once accused them of being? Problematic because they’re known for asserting that the U.S. engineered the AIDS virus and may just have let the attack on Pearl Harbor happen to justify a colonialist war in the Pacific? Oh, sorry; he said Christian right. My advice to McCain: Give a speech perfunctorily condemning every freaky thing any Christian preacher has ever said while embracing...

McCain won't bow to the Religious Right. At United Jewish Communities conference, three representatives from the presidential campaigns of Senators John McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, talked with an audience about why their candidate benefits the Jewish community.

The Bush administration has indicated its readiness to recognize a unilateral declaration of independence by ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, a province of the Republic of Serbia that since 1999 has been under United Nations administration and NATO military control. ... Attempting to impose a settlement on Serbia would be a direct challenge to the Russian Federation, which opposes any Kosovo settlement not accepted by Belgrade. We believe an imposed settlement of the Kosovo question and seeking to partition Serbia's sovereign territory without its consent is not in the interest of the United States. The blithe assumption of American policy —...

I hope someone can replace this thread with a transcript of Neal's interview with Eagleburger. Eagleburger was saying that "it is time to get tough with Iran"..."I don't know if war is the right word, but we need to knock them around a little", etc.

by Mark Finkelstein June 22, 2006 Norah loves Larry. At least, she loves the way Larry Eagleburger phrased things about North Korea. At the same time, Larry made it fairly clear that there's no love lost between himself and Dick Cheney. The former Bush, Sr. Secretary of State appeared on this evening's Hardball. Guest host Norah O'Donnell interviewed him along with former Clinton defense official Ashton Carter. Carter had in turn written an op-ed in today's Washington Post, which as indicated by its title, If Necessary, Strike and Destroy, advocates blowing the North Korean ICBM off its launch pad if...

The Talk Shows Sunday, January 22nd, 2006 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Richard Durbin, D-Ill.; University of Maryland's men's basketball coach Gary Williams. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Joe Lieberman, D-Conn. THIS WEEK (ABC): John Kerry, D-Mass.; Reps. Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., and Jane Harman, D-Calif., chairman and ranking Democrat of the House Intelligence Committee; actor Gary Sinise. LATE EDITION (CNN) : Sens. George Allen, R-Va., and Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.; Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat...

Lawrence Sidney Eagleburger (August 1, 1930-) was born in Milwaukee. Described as a career diplomat, Eagleburger joined the Foreign Service in 1957 and held a series of embassy, State Department, national security, and Defense Department posts before serving as Ambassador (1977-81) to Yugoslavia. He was a State Department Assistant Secretary (1981-82) and Undersecretary (1982-84) before serving as Deputy Secretary of State (1989-92) and Secretary of State (1992-93) under President George Herbert Walker Bush, becoming the first Foreign Service officer to hold the latter post.

President Bush's nomination of John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has generated a bad case of dyspepsia among a number of senators, who keep putting off a confirmation vote. That hesitation is now portrayed as a consequence of Bolton's purported "mistreatment" of several State Department intelligence analysts. But this is a smoke screen. The real reasons Bolton's opponents want to derail his nomination are his oft-repeated criticism of the United Nations and other international organizations, his rejection of the arguments of those who ignore or excuse the inexcusable (i.e., the election of Sudan to the U.N. Human...

President Bush's nomination of John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has generated a bad case of dyspepsia among a number of senators, who keep putting off a confirmation vote. That hesitation is now portrayed as a consequence of Bolton's purported "mistreatment" of several State Department intelligence analysts. But this is a smoke screen. The real reasons Bolton's opponents want to derail his nomination are his oft-repeated criticism of the United Nations and other international organizations, his rejection of the arguments of those who ignore or excuse the inexcusable (i.e., the election of Sudan to the U.N. Human...

The Talk Shows Sunday, May 8th, 2004 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Evan Bayh, D-Ind. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sens. John Warner, R-Va., Carl Levin, D-Mich., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; retired Gen. Wesley Clark. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Joe Biden, D-Del., and Chuck Hagel, R-Neb. THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Pat Roberts, R-Kan. LATE EDITION (CNN) : Iraqi Governing Council member Ahmed Chalabi; Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill.; Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif.; former Ambassador Joseph Wilson; former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger;...

Eagleburger's Wise Words Edward I. Koch Tuesday, April 20, 2004 On Sunday, April 4, while watching the Fox News Channel, I saw former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger interviewed on the rising insurrection in Iraq. The interview followed a whole day of televised gloom, doom, pessimism and Bush-bashing by the talking heads of medialand. I listened in amazement and agreement to the opinions of Eagleburger, who was secretary of state from 1992 to 1993 under President George H.W. Bush. The next day, I expected Eagleburger's views to be covered by the media. There was not one reference to his comments....

WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- Former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger reacted to reports Monday of French collaboration with the regime of Saddam Hussein saying, "France is not our friend." Documents emerged over the weekend indicating that the French foreign ministry informed their Iraqi counterparts about private communications with U.S. government officials on an ongoing basis. Eagleburger was not surprised by the revelations, suggesting that America needs to "close off most of the avenues of relationships" and to treat France "as a third level and not allies." The former official in the previous Bush administration said, "I don't see how our...