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...find one increasingly likely scenario terrifying: India’s ruling coalition is seen as being weak on terror, and if the current opposition keeps up the pressure the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) could find itself in power after the general election next May. Like the Republican Party here in America, and like good right-wing organizations across the globe, the BJP is brilliant at hiding its ulterior motives under the veil of national security. The last time the BJP was in power was by no means tranquil, and the party’s idea of fighting terror...
...like [General Dwight D.] Eisenhower, who belonged to no camp and everyone wanted him." - Democratic House leader Steny Hoyer on Jones' political attractiveness (The Wall Street Journal, April...
...provides a nonpartisan standard for the national interest - that would be the presumption given his previous experience." - Retired Army General Wesley Clark (The Washington Post...
...most surprising thing about President-elect Obama's pick of James Jones Jr. to serve as his national security adviser isn't that he's a retired four-star Marine general. It's that Jones is a longtime friend of Senator John McCain, the man Obama defeated to win the White House. While many prior Democratic national security advisers - think Anthony Lake under Clinton - have been academics or policy wonks, Obama's choice of Jones highlights his centrist tendency and his willingness to confound his party. It will be Jones' job to serve as a foreign-policy broker...
...gets to the heart of an issue very quickly and does it in a way that is very inclusive of everybody around him." - Retired Marine General Peter Pace, who has known Jones for 38 years, in an Associated Press profile on Jones...