Richard Haass
Richard Haass
Richard Nathan Haassis an American diplomat. He has been president of the Council on Foreign Relations since July 2003, prior to which he was Director of Policy Planning for the United States Department of State and a close advisor to Secretary of State Colin Powell. The Senate approved Haass as a candidate for the position of ambassador and he has been U.S. Coordinator for the Future of Afghanistan. He succeeded George J. Mitchell as the United States Special Envoy for...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth28 July 1951
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The biggest thing these appointments tell you about the direction of U.S. foreign policy is that there is no direction.
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The most dangerous delusion is that a conflict would be either small or quick.
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Save your breath. The president has already made up his mind.
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The upper hand is with those who are pushing regime change rather than those who are advocating more diplomacy.
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There's a daisy chain that stems from the fact that no weapons of mass destruction have been found.