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A conversation with Brent Scowcroft, former National Security Adviser and Carlos Pascual, Brookings vice president and director of Foreign Policy at Brookings
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ShalomFreedman 04/27/2009 05:33 AM Report
Carlos Pascual was far closer to a sense of the real situation of the Middle East than was Brent Snowcroft. Snowcroft spoke as if the Palestinians were a unified and ordered political entity, capable of making and enforcing a real political agreement with Israel. Pascual made the obvious point that the Palestinians are divided between Hamas and Fatah with no sign that Moderation is about to win the day. In fact the reality on the ground is even worse than this, simply because the so- called 'moderate Fatah' is not in essence moderate either.
slovik 04/25/2009 08:12 AM Report
Are we so weak we cannot admit a mistake everybody knows about? That would make us weak and petty. I didn't want the memos released but it had to be done-Don't want to pay my water bill either but oh well. Transparency cures many problems and makes many laws redundant.
doodahdaze 04/25/2009 08:10 AM Report
His assertion that the "recent" ongoing Iraq conflict is a "mistake", is a bit premature and out-of-character for a man of his intellect... Perhaps a reflection of his "personal (emotional)" "distaste" for the bratty Bush boy?.
Christopher 04/25/2009 03:13 AM Report
On the contrary, I give full credit to Obama to the full disclosure of the torture methods. What a tremendous credibilty jump for the US. Can anyone deny that the last 100 days have been all Obama's. It is almost as if he has a checklist of his campaign promises and he checking them off one by one.
CarolJ 04/24/2009 10:33 PM Report
Charlie, I am not sure what I saw when I watched this on television, but I had the impression you were being rude to Mr. Pascual, just watching the show on your website, I saw only one thing sort of a mean look to Mr. Pascual. You did overly favor Mr. Scowcruft. You gave Mr. Scowcruft a big smile and thanked him, while you ignored Mr. Pascual. That is not you Charlie.!!!!!!!!!!!
REMant 04/24/2009 07:19 PM Report
I think the concept to work with now is reciprocity, as opposed to free trade. Like Britain at this point in her history, it has been until recently to our advantage to have free trade, but not necessarily for our partners. That time is over, and now it is China's turn. But this cycle of virtue and corruption, rise and decline shouldn't go on, can't go on, and I think, the task now, is to pay attention to fair trade and nation-building (if you will) so that the result is a "customs union" approach or reciprocity, as indeed it was at the beginning of this country. This means, I think, foremostly bringing the multinational corporations to account, and restructuring the international banking system. As for Iran, etc, I think we should leave them alone and not push them into regretable acts as we did Japan and Germany in the last century.
tartufe 04/24/2009 01:34 PM Report
The naivete of Scowcroft was embarrassing. The little boy view about the virtuosity of the good ole USA is too retro for useful conversation. His arrogance is unfortunately not out of style, but still alive and well, despite the waning justification.
Have to admit his assertion that Iraq’s cost outweighs any potential benefit - should they accrue - was surprising, given his aint-we-grand aura.