Kenneth Pollack
Kenneth Pollack
Kenneth Michael "Ken" Pollack, PhD, is a noted former CIA intelligence analyst and expert on Middle East politics and military affairs. He has served on the National Security Council staff and has written several articles and books on international relations...
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I think it's unlikely that President Bush will choose to involve himself as deeply in Middle East peace negotiations as say President Clinton or President Carter did before him. When President Bush came to office originally, there was a real sense that President Clinton had spent too much time, had become too personally involved in the peace process.
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The theory that democracy is the antidote to insurgency gets disproved on the ground every day.