Profiles In Loyalty
July 31, 2006 at 8:40 am
From today’s Post:
Annan’s appeal to members was calculated to prod the United States — which has backed Israel’s operation in Lebanon — to reverse course in opposing an immediate cease-fire. Annan was joined in that call by an unexpected voice: Ann M. Veneman, a former member of President Bush’s Cabinet, who is executive director of UNICEF.
Also from today’s Post, Richard Haass, who was President Bush’s first-term State Department policy planning director and who now …
leads the Council on Foreign Relations, laughed at the president’s public optimism. “An opportunity?” Haass said with an incredulous tone. “Lord, spare me. I don’t laugh a lot. That’s the funniest thing I’ve heard in a long time. If this is an opportunity, what’s Iraq? A once-in-a-lifetime chance?”
Would love to be a fly on the wall at the CFR when Haas runs into new senior fellow Michael Gerson, President Bush’s longtime speechwriter and adviser.
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