In Charlie's Greenroom: Dennis Ross

with Dennis Ross

on Sunday, July 1, 2007 * * * * *

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In Charlie's Greenroom: DENNIS ROSS, a chief Mideast peace negotiator for Presidents Clinton & George HW Bush, talked about what skills are essential for international diplomacy and offered career advice.

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    1. Tony  07/30/2007 09:19 PM Report

      Dr Murray Morgan makes nos sense, and needs to face reality he just spreading propaganda.

    2. Paul Plamondon  07/30/2007 01:24 PM Report

      Dear Mr. Rose:

      I've always wanted to express my great gratitude and appreciation for your terrific, informative and entertaining.

      Sir, you and your nightly programs are class acts!

      Thanks to you, je vois la vie en Rose!

      Kudos to you, Sir!

      Paul Plamondon

    3. Dr_Murray Morgan  07/26/2007 04:56 PM Report

      http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070726/pl_nm/usa_politics_iran_dc_1

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      United States of Israel

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      To-be-Presidents of ISrael

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      ""Allowing Iran, a radical theocracy that supports terrorism and openly threatens its neighbors, to acquire nuclear weapons is a risk we cannot take," Democratic Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois said in a letter to the Israel Project, a pro-Israel group that educates the public about Israel and advocates an end to investment in Iran.

      Obama's tough line on Iran was largely echoed in other letters from seven other candidates, including Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York and former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, both Democrats.

      Two Republican candidates -- former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas -- stressed, as Bush has done, that the military option must remain on the table.""

    4. Cassandra  07/26/2007 01:05 AM Report

      Thanks James.

      I am already familiar with the minority rights you refer to, and agree with you that many people do not understand this very important protection. But I don't understand what that has to do about my point. My point is that peaceful transfer of power is necessary after a valid election process if a democracy is to survive. The group (or at least a significant number of members) that lost (Fatah) did not peacefully relinquish power, and that is what I don't understand. If the U.S. is advocating democracy, then we should not be supporting a group that refuses to transfer power peacefully.

    5. James Monroe  07/22/2007 09:16 PM Report

      Cassandra read up on our Constitutional democracy - negative protection of rights - thus minorities - not merely the will of the majority and you may get some further insight as to the view/policies of the United States - even though it often is not articulated very well.

    6. Cassandra Butler  07/18/2007 11:46 PM Report

      re: Palestinian issue

      I haven't heard anyone, including Dennis Ross, mention how difficult (actually hypocritical) it is for our country to support Fatah. Although many western countries (including Israel) had a negative response to Hamas winning the Palestinian elections, it is very important to isolate FATAH's response. Members of FATAH did not accept the election results, because they did not want to lose power. Thus, the "democracy" did not transition smoothly from Fatah leadership to a mixed leadership of a Fatah executive with a Hamas legislature. So Fatah was the barrier to a transition, and many individual Fatah members resorted to violence to resist this change in power.

      In this perspective, the United States, by supporting Fatah, is encouraging the disruption in the transition of a democratically elected group. In this case, Fatah, by resorting to violence against Hamas to prevent Hamas from taking there place in the government, really should be considered terrorist.

      The United States is backing and arming the group that is stopping the democratic process from occurring. This is the hypocrisy.