firstread.msnbc.msn.com - 11/22/2008
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From NBC's Andrea Mitchell Democratic sources say that former Bush 41 National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft is one of the people whom Barack Obama has been consulting about how to craft his national security team. Knowledgeable sources say Obama reached out to Scowcroft two days ago to discuss defense and national security issues.
Scowcroft, who first served as President Ford's national security adviser, was an early and vocal critic of the Iraq war -- starting in August 2002. That ...
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 11/26/2008
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Via Josh Marshall, an interesting Wall Street Journal
account of Brent Scowcroft’s behind-the-scenes role talking to Barack...
Obama and trying to push some of his younger protégés as job candidates. To understand the context for this, ...
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The Scowcroft Factor
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Is Progressive Foreign Policy Dead on Arrival?
Weekly Standard Blog —
... , and Obama will be taking counsel from Scowcroft all the while. These people are not progressives (except Clinton on domestic policy); they are generally considered to be in the realist camp, with the possible exception of Clinton, a liberal internationalist. Jones, Gates and Scowcroft aren't even Democrats. ...
OPERATION "SQUEEZE-PLAY" FULL STEAM AHEAD: ABBAS CALLS UPON PRES-ELECT OBAMA TO ADOPT SAUDI "PEACE" PLAN
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... rocket landed in an open area near Ashkelon. No casualties or damages were reported in the attacks.OBAMA MAY HAVE ALREADY TOLD ABBAS HE WILL PUSH FOR ISRAEL TO ACCEPT THE SAUDI PLAN. I EXPECT THIS TO HAPPEN. I EXPECT OBAMA TO SQUEEZE ISRAEL - PUT MORE PRESSURE ON THEM THAN THE ARABS. MAIN REASON: OBAMA HAS BEEN AN ANTI-ZIONIST HIS WHOLE ADULT LIFE AND HE HAS SURROUNDED HIMSELF WITH ANTI-ZIONISTS SINCE THE DAY HE ANNOUNCED. LIKE ZBIG. AND NOW SCOWCROFT. BOTH ARE ANTI-SEMITES. IN A WASH-POST OP-ED, ZBIG AND BRENT ...
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