Obama's senior Middle East policy advisor: Dennis Ross
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No beating around the bush with this guy...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofbIIXiEvsQ
" Dennis Ross, Bill Clinton's Middle East envoy whose record includes supporting the pro-Iraq War advocacy campaigns of the Project for the New American Century and serving as a consultant to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), a bastion of Israel-centric policy thinking in Washington."
"Ross, a former Soviet specialist, reportedly has told friends and foreign officials that he hopes to nab a very senior post in an Obama administration, one that at least covers Iran policy, if not the entire Greater Middle East."
"Ross got his start in high-level policy-making working under Paul Wolfowitz in the Pentagon during the Carter administration. Wolfowitz -- who is better known for his role pushing the Iraq War after the 11 September attacks and for his controversial tenure as World Bank head -- tasked Ross with helping draft a study assessing threats to US interests in the Persian Gulf. The 1979 study, titled the "Limited Contingency Study," concluded that aside from the Soviet Union, a key threat to the region's oil fields was Iraq."
"In his 2004 book Rise of the Vulcans, James Mann writes that this study, the Pentagon's "first extensive examination of the need for the United States to defend the Persian Gulf," would go on to "play a groundbreaking role in changing American military policy toward the Persian Gulf over the coming decades."
When Wolfowitz was tapped to head the State Department's Policy Planning Staff after the election of Ronald Reagan, he included Ross in his team of assistants, which, according to Mann, would go on to become, over the next two decades, "the heart of a new neoconservative network within the foreign policy bureaucracy.""
"Ross's close association with neoconservatives has deepened over the years, becoming especially pronounced in the wake of the 11 September attacks. He supported the invasion of Iraq and, during the run-up to the 2008 presidential elections, repeatedly teamed up with writers from groups like the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) to craft hard-line policies toward Iran."
"Ross also helped produce the 2008 report "Meeting the Challenge: US Policy Toward Iranian Nuclear Development," which was published by a study group convened by the Bipartisan Policy Centre, a group led by several former legislators."
"Calling the report a "roadmap to war," Inter Press Service's Jim Lobe writes, "In other words, if Tehran is not eventually prepared to permanently abandon its enrichment of uranium on its own soil -- a position that is certain to be rejected by Iran ab initio -- war becomes inevitable, and all intermediate steps, even including direct talks if the new president chooses to pursue them, will amount to going through the motions ... What is a top Obama adviser [Dennis Ross] doing signing on to it?""
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9933.shtml
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofbIIXiEvsQ
" Dennis Ross, Bill Clinton's Middle East envoy whose record includes supporting the pro-Iraq War advocacy campaigns of the Project for the New American Century and serving as a consultant to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), a bastion of Israel-centric policy thinking in Washington."
"Ross, a former Soviet specialist, reportedly has told friends and foreign officials that he hopes to nab a very senior post in an Obama administration, one that at least covers Iran policy, if not the entire Greater Middle East."
"Ross got his start in high-level policy-making working under Paul Wolfowitz in the Pentagon during the Carter administration. Wolfowitz -- who is better known for his role pushing the Iraq War after the 11 September attacks and for his controversial tenure as World Bank head -- tasked Ross with helping draft a study assessing threats to US interests in the Persian Gulf. The 1979 study, titled the "Limited Contingency Study," concluded that aside from the Soviet Union, a key threat to the region's oil fields was Iraq."
"In his 2004 book Rise of the Vulcans, James Mann writes that this study, the Pentagon's "first extensive examination of the need for the United States to defend the Persian Gulf," would go on to "play a groundbreaking role in changing American military policy toward the Persian Gulf over the coming decades."
When Wolfowitz was tapped to head the State Department's Policy Planning Staff after the election of Ronald Reagan, he included Ross in his team of assistants, which, according to Mann, would go on to become, over the next two decades, "the heart of a new neoconservative network within the foreign policy bureaucracy.""
"Ross's close association with neoconservatives has deepened over the years, becoming especially pronounced in the wake of the 11 September attacks. He supported the invasion of Iraq and, during the run-up to the 2008 presidential elections, repeatedly teamed up with writers from groups like the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) to craft hard-line policies toward Iran."
"Ross also helped produce the 2008 report "Meeting the Challenge: US Policy Toward Iranian Nuclear Development," which was published by a study group convened by the Bipartisan Policy Centre, a group led by several former legislators."
"Calling the report a "roadmap to war," Inter Press Service's Jim Lobe writes, "In other words, if Tehran is not eventually prepared to permanently abandon its enrichment of uranium on its own soil -- a position that is certain to be rejected by Iran ab initio -- war becomes inevitable, and all intermediate steps, even including direct talks if the new president chooses to pursue them, will amount to going through the motions ... What is a top Obama adviser [Dennis Ross] doing signing on to it?""
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9933.shtml
Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg
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Appointee #2....Dennis Ross.... aye carumba...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED2aaB9l878
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg
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( o.O)
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The only two appointees thus far are Emanuel and Robert Gibbs as Press Secretary.