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...Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has turned to former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter for tips ahead of her own conference this year. .....Other sources of advice have been former U.S. negotiator Dennis Ross and ex-secretaries of state James Baker, Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright. Rice meets frequently for lunch with Albright, whose father taught Rice at Denver University.....
Originally posted by FlyersFan
If she's really taking advice on foreign policy from Jimmy Carter - then she should be fired.
posted by Shar
Well its right there in black and white. I believe it. They seem to all hang around together. They don't separate like they use too. I believe they might just might want us to believe they do. But, their all friends. Closer than what you realize.
Originally posted by Shar
I’m beginning to wonder who really does run our country.
These Secretary of State people seem like they have a lot of power and control to do as they please.
...Rice invited Carter, a vocal critic of Bush administration policies, to the State Department on Wednesday where the two discussed his Arab-Israeli peacemaking efforts in the 1970s, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said on Friday. Their talks were "good and cordial," he said. They focused on the Middle East and not Carter's recent criticism of President George W. Bush's policies in Iraq and elsewhere.
A Soviet specialist, Rice also telephoned another former Democratic president, Bill Clinton, who tried, and ultimately failed, in his eight years in office to bring the Israelis and Palestinians together...
Other sources of advice have been former U.S. negotiator Dennis Ross and ex-secretaries of state James Baker, Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright. Rice meets frequently for lunch with Albright, whose father taught Rice at Denver University....
Originally posted by St Udio
Originally posted by Shar
I’m beginning to wonder who really does run our country.
These Secretary of State people seem like they have a lot of power and control to do as they please.
but their loyalty is to the puppet-master(s)...most likely funneled from the many 'think-tanks' they were associated with...
Originally posted by xpert11
Well my gut feeling tells me that if this story is true Condi would be looking to understand the mindset of the Palestine leaders and negotiating mistakes that have been made in the past rather then straight foreign policy advice
In the wider Middle East, the conviction is growing that America is determined to launch an attack. Some well-placed Israeli and Palestinian sources suggest that next month’s Middle East peace conference in Annapolis, near Washington, could be the catapult for an ambitious plan to establish a Palestinian state and disarm Iran.
“The idea is to tie Palestine to Iran,” said an Israeli Middle East expert. “Israel will be obliged to accept the establishment of a Palestinian state within a short and firm timetable and the US administration will guarantee that the Iranian nuclear issue will be solved before Bush leaves office. If Israel is prepared to move towards the creation of a Palestinian state, the hope is that Sunni Arab regimes such as Saudi Arabia and Egypt will not protest too loudly about a US attack on Iran”
posted by turbokid
posted by xpert11
Well my gut feeling tells me that if this story is true Condi would be looking to understand the mindset of the Palestine leaders
. . according to this article there might be a big deal brewing about Palestine
In the wider Middle East, the conviction is growing that America is determined to launch an attack. “The idea is to tie Palestine to Iran,” said an Israeli Middle East expert. “Israel will be obliged to accept the establishment of a Palestinian state within a short and firm timetable and the US administration will guarantee that the Iranian nuclear issue will be solved before Bush leaves office.