has written a book about "Peace" and yet Blitzer gives him air time to say we must be strong in Najav and not let what happened in Falluja where we backed down to happen there. He gave me the impression he wanted the "shrine" taken out (but, that was just my impression).
He served in Poppy and Clinton's administration as a special ambassador or something.
I'm telling you that Rush Limbaugh thing I heard and posted about here on DU is going to be the
October Surprise. Invading and nuking Iran...it's on the table and CNN and Pig Boy are telling us exactly what's going to happen.
And it's disgusting...they want the whole ME to blow. Ross pretty much said that everyone will defend each other there because Iran is "destabilizing" the ME.. On Edit: He said Iran's "Nuclear Capacity" was threatening enough that action needs to be taken. (Yeah...where have we heard before about Nukes and WMD...WHY SHOULD WE BELIEVE THIS!
Will WaPo and NYT's Judith Miller take us into Iran and Egypt, Syria?
:grr:
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The lessons of Dennis Ross
By Ze'ev Schiff
The U.S. was guilty of not being ready to stop the process when a significant violation took place. Ross writes that the Americans were "afraid" it would hurt the process, so they created an atmosphere in which violating a commitment did not appear to be a serious matter to the parties.
Nobody has as much experience mediating in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as special envoy Dennis Ross, who worked for two American administrations: the first George Bush's Republican administration and the two terms of Bill Clinton's Democratic administration. Ross's book, The Missing Peace, due out next month, is packed with details about the negotiations and their failures. It is a kind of encyclopedia of the peace process between Israel and the Arabs, and helps to dispel rumors and shatter myths.
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Ambassador Dennis Ross
Ambassador Dennis Ross is counselor and Ziegler distinguished fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. For more than twelve years, Ambassador Ross played a leading role in shaping U.S. involvement in the Middle East peace process and in dealing directly with the parties in negotiations. A highly skilled diplomat, Ambassador Ross was this country's point man on the peace process in both the George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations. He was instrumental in assisting Israelis and Palestinians in reaching the 1995 Interim Agreement; he also successfully brokered the Hebron Accord in 1997, facilitated the 1994 Israel-Jordan peace treaty, and intensively worked to bring Israel and Syria together.
A scholar and diplomat with more than two decades of experience in Soviet and Middle East policy, Ambassador Ross worked closely with Secretaries of State James Baker, Warren Christopher, and Madeleine Albright. Prior to his service as special Middle East coordinator under President Clinton, Ross served as director of the State Department's Policy Planning office in the first Bush administration. In that position, he played a prominent role in developing U.S. policy toward the former Soviet Union, the unification of Germany and its integration into NATO, arms control negotiations, and the development of the 1991 Gulf War coalition. During the Reagan administration, he served as director of Near East and South Asian affairs on the National Security Council staff and as deputy director of the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment. Ambassador Ross was awarded the Presidential Medal for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service by President Clinton, and Secretaries Baker and Albright presented him with the State Department's highest award.
A 1970 graduate of UCLA, Ambassador Ross wrote his doctoral dissertation on Soviet decisionmaking, and from 1984 to 1986 served as executive director of the Berkeley-Stanford program on Soviet International Behavior. He has received UCLA's highest medal and has been named UCLA alumni of the year. He has also received honorary doctorates from the Jewish Theological Seminary and Syracuse University.
Ambassador Ross has published extensively on the former Soviet Union, arms control, and the greater Middle East, contributing numerous chapters to anthologies. In the 1970s and 1980s, his articles appeared in World Politics, Political Science Quarterly, Orbis, International Security, Survival, and Journal of Strategic Studies. Since leaving the government in 2001, he has published in Foreign Policy and National Interest.
Mr. Ross is also a frequent contributor to the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and New York Times. His book, The Missing Peace, a comprehensive look at the Middle East peace process, will be published by Farrar, Strauss and Giroux in August 2004.