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...source close to the Saudi family says a variety of factors played into Turki's surprising departure - both personality differences, but also genuine differences of opinion inside the monarchy over how to deal with Iran's growing threat in the region. This advisor said that Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the current national security adviser and former longtime Saudi ambassador in Washington, as well as his father (who is also defense minister) Prince Sultan, and others in the so-called Sudeiri branch of the royal family have long favored cautious, but somewhat more aggressive methods to deal with Iran than...
...well, because many of them voted for the Iraq War in 2002 and have since been criticizing it. "Barack Obama in 2002 gives a speech and says that the war will cost hundreds of billions of dollars and cost thousands of lives - and he's inexperienced?" said one Obama advisor. "The quote-unquote experienced guys got it wrong; he got it right...
...combines raw intellectual horsepower and inventiveness with a remarkable work ethic, and he is not afraid to challenge established arguments and ideas, inside and outside the classroom,” Hiscox, Hemel’s thesis advisor and one-time professor, wrote in an e-mail...
After noting that she embarked on a quest to piece together the mysterious past of her diplomat father Paul and his Ph.D. advisor Bartholomew Rossi, our historian eerily asserts: “we all found ourselves on one of the darkest pathways into history. It is the story of who survived that search and who did not, and why. As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claw...
David W. Johnson, head section leader for Ec 10, noted that Mankiw’s extensive Washington experience will make him a much more effective advisor...