Kerry - Debate on U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East at the Democratic Convention

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http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-22-2008/0004872044&EDATE=

New America Foundation Leading the Debate on U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East at the Democratic Convention

Can the Next President Make The Middle East Irrelevant?

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The New America
Foundation/Middle East Policy Initiative will host a policy forum focused
on how to implement a game-changing strategy for American engagement in the
Middle East that produces a new, stable security and economic equilibrium
rather than the convulsions and instability prevalent today.

WHO: Senator John Kerry (D-MA), Chairman, Near East and South and
Central Asian Affairs Subcommittee, Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Joschka Fischer, former Foreign Minister of Germany

Greg Craig, Senior National Security Advisor to Senator Barack Obama;
former Director of Policy Planning, Department of State

Mel Levine, Obama Campaign; former Member, U.S. House of
Representatives

Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
International Affairs, Princeton University
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[beachmom]

1. Oh, that should be good. Joschka Fischer is a piece of work

Now that guy was a 60s radical.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/debates/specials/1104143.stm

Joschka Fischer's radical past has come back to haunt him.

Photographs of the German Foreign minister beating up a policeman during a demonstration in the 1970s were published by a magazine and led to calls for his resignation.

Mr Fischer apologized for what he called his "dark past" as a radical activist in the Green Party, but refused to step down. He appears to have public opinion on his side.