In February this year, three former U.S. diplomats toured the Mideast as part of an independent delegation and met with President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, President Emile Lahoud of Lebanon, Hassan Nasrallah of Hezbollah, various Hamas officials and Amr Mousa, secretary general of the Arab League.
- ROBERT KEELEY (WEB Link) A former U.S. ambassador to Greece and Zimbabwe
- EDWARD L. PECK (WEB Link) Peck, a former U.S. chief of mission in Iraq and ambassador to Mauritania, was deputy director of the White House Task Force on Terrorism in the Reagan administration
- EUGENE BIRD (eMail Link) President of the Center for the National Interest
The above is a link-list of former U.S. diplomats who made this tour.
The Middle East has always been a problem, at least for decades, but it is going to hell-in-a-handbasket of late. We need better policy makers in Washington DC, NOW.
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