Obama is in bed with the Iraq Study Group
April 6, 2008
By Ted Belman
A number of people have written to me to tell me Brzezinski, either is not on Obama’s foreign team or is just one member of it. Ever since Brzezinski introduced Obama last summer, Brzezinski has remained in the background for fear of alienating Obama’s Jewish support. It makes little difference because all the others on the team are generally in agreement with his policies.
Now Lee Hamilton has officially joined the team. And as you know Hamilton and Brzezinski are joined at the hip. They both were on the Iraq Study Group and they both signed a letter among others, calling themselves “realists”, pre-Annapolis, in which they urged Bush to do a number of things to make Annapolis a success.
The unsolicited Brzezinski-Hamilton Report
The surprising recommendation that will probably make the most news is that Washington should participate in starting a “genuine dialogue” with the fundamentalist Hamas group, although the proposal stops short of calling for Hamas to be invited to the November conference. While commending Bush for planning to invite Syria, they say that the invitation should not be symbolic but “genuine engagement.” The letter argues that if Syria or Hamas are ostracized, “prospects that they will play a spoiler role increase dramatically… By the same token, a comprehensive cease-fire or prisoner exchange is not possible without Hamas’ cooperation.”
Perhaps the most significant recommendation concerns what the U.S. should do if Israeli and Palestinian leaders fail to reach a pre-conference understanding on the endgame contours of a permanent peace agreement on the Israeli-Palestinian dispute: the authors say that the so-called Quartet (a mediation group including the U.S., Russia, EU and UN) should lay down an endgame outline for them.
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