A conversation with James Rubin

with James Rubin
in Current Affairs
on Tuesday, April 18, 2000 * * * * *

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Reflections from outgoing State Department spokesman James Rubin, who worked with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright for seven years during the events leading up to the war in Kosovo and through difficult relations with Russia and China.

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James Rubin
Milosevic
Christiane Amanpour
Rambouillet
Madeleine Albright
Kosovo

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    1. AL1  12/01/2010 03:24 PM Report

      James Rubin mentioned that his wikileaks show with Guest host ( very qualifiyed btw ) Jon Meacham agreed with the idea that "if all Arab Leaders said publicly what they tell us in private, the Arab world would be a much better place" really??

      It strikes me as surprising and borderline scary that somebody of his status believes that.

      We all know that the reasons why Arab leaders dont share those thoughts with the their public is simply because they would have a coup or even get shot within weeks if they did. We all know that these puppet leaders are not the choice of their people and that has in fact been one of the main fuels of Terrorism at least the propaganda part, in my opinion.

      Maybe if that happened in today's troubling electrifyed atmosphere, we are more likely to find less friendly ( to say the least ) leadership to our interest replacing them.

      The reasons these puppets lie to their people is because most of them are corrupt, not qualifiyed and do not represent their population, for the most part they only worry about keeping their seat and power at all cost.

      I truly hope that today's adm. has a better insight and more realistic and less bias understanding of the true situation in the Arab world which is the source of so much of our troubles here today. Our understanding of the true situation and reality on the groud can only make us safer.

      I hope we know that today's Arab youth are a little more informed, educated and aware then generations passed.