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...invocation Jan. 20 when Obama is sworn in as President. Bloomberg reports that moderate Republican Jim Leach of Iowa has been representing Obama at White House talks on the economy. And last Tuesday, the New York Times reported that Obama is being advised by foreign policy heavyweight Brent Scowcroft, National Security Adviser under the first President Bush and described by the Times as "an old Republican Realist...
Pointing to the Middle East as an example, Scowcroft said that international problems no longer end within country lines but are instead “overlapping and interconnected...
...fragile and easily reversed. And it will be a shame, after going so far, to just turn around and let it collapse, because a collapse in Iraq is not just a collapse in Iraq. It could lead to a Middle East that looks like Iraq now,” Scowcroft said...
...Scowcroft also challenged the reasons for America’s initial involvement in the region...
...Experience is valuable, but experience is only valuable if you have the judgement to know when to apply it and when not to apply it,” Scowcroft said...