Talk about familiar faces, the Forward says that Martin Indyk and Dennis Ross are
in the race to be Obama's point man on the Middle East. As is the truly
superior Dan Kurtzer. Let's pray it's Kurtzer. All three are Jews. Kurtzer and Aaron Miller have told
us we need more diversity on the team. I guess Obama's the diversity? Signed, sealed, delivered I'm yours.
Speaking of Indyk, here he is over at the Council on Foreign Relations,
along with CFR Pres Richard Haass, recommending "a new U.S. strategy
for the Middle East." Wait, weren't these the guys who gave us the old strategy? Haass was in Colin Powell's State
Department during the Iraq war runup. You remember Haass–he was
the one who stood up and resigned in outrage (Not!). Haass and Indyk's CFR report is filled with the conventional wisdom, and horrors like this:
