September 15, 2008 • 5:40 pm
I highly recommend CNN’s upcoming television special, “The Next President: A World Of Challenges.” I had the pleasure this afternoon of being in the audience for the tv taping at GW’s Lisner Auditorium. Former secretaries of state, Albright, Baker, Christopher, Kissinger, and Powell were asked about the advice they would give to the incoming President of the United States.
This event was taped for broadcast on CNN and will premier Saturday, September 20, 2008 at 9 pm. It will also be available online at CNN.com. For the entire written transcript of the presentation, go to this link.
The event was also live-blogged by The GW Hatchet, The George Washington University’s independant student newspaper.
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September 5, 2008 • 4:30 pm
I waited in a very long line yesterday to get a ticket to a roundtable discussion between five former secretaries of state that will take place on September 15 at The George Washington University. Madeleine Albright, James Baker, Warren Christopher, Henry Kissinger, and Colin Powell will assess the foreign policy challenges confronting the next presidential administration. The event will be moderated by CNN’s Christiane Amanpour and Frank Sesno, and will air at a later time on CNN. I am very excited for this panel.
Only in Washington DC would you see over 800 students lining up for several hours to see former secretaries of state!
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I love it when Thomas Friedman speaks bluntly. He stated the following in his July 18, 2007 op-ed column in the New York Times.
President Bush baffles me. If your whole legacy was riding on Iraq, what would you do? I’d draft the country’s best negotiators — Henry Kissinger, Jim Baker, George Shultz, George Mitchell, Dennis Ross or Richard Holbrooke — and ask one or all of them to go to Baghdad, under a U.N. mandate, with the following orders:
”I want you to move to the Green Zone, meet with the Iraqi factions and do not come home until you’ve reached one of three conclusions: 1) You have resolved the power- and oil-sharing issues holding up political reconciliation; 2) you have concluded that those obstacles are insurmountable and have sold the Iraqis on a partition plan that could be presented to the U.N. and supervised by an international force; 3) you have concluded that Iraqis are incapable of agreeing on either political reconciliation or a partition plan and told them that, as a result, the U.S. has no choice but to re-deploy its troops to the border and let Iraqis sort this out on their own.”
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