01-12-2009, 02:52 AM
Of greatest interest is the president's decision to retain the Secretary of Defense of the previous administration, the past Director of Central Intelligence, Robert M. Gates.
Gates coauthored with Zbigniew Brzezinski the 2004 Council on Foreign Relations paper "Iran: Time for a New Approach" calling for negotiations with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Brzezinski has been a major foreign policy advisor to the president, and negotiations with Iran have been pressed despite results revealed daily to be "disappointing" in the particularly Orwellian language of diplomacy.
http://www.cfr.org/publication/7194/
Gates coauthored with Zbigniew Brzezinski the 2004 Council on Foreign Relations paper "Iran: Time for a New Approach" calling for negotiations with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Brzezinski has been a major foreign policy advisor to the president, and negotiations with Iran have been pressed despite results revealed daily to be "disappointing" in the particularly Orwellian language of diplomacy.
http://www.cfr.org/publication/7194/