Word: haass
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...White House and the State Department are wrestling with whether Netanyahu is "all talk and no action" when he says he is committed to the search for a peaceful solution. "Even if you get a deal on Hebron," says Richard Haass, who headed Middle Eastern affairs at the National Security Council during the Bush Administration, "it's still hard to be optimistic about the course of the next months and years. It's really up to Israelis to decide what sort of lives they want to lead...
...those excuses are valid, but two others are more important. First, there was no assurance then -- and there is none now either -- that a successor to Saddam would be less hostile to U.S. interests. "Saddamism without Saddam is a real possibility," says Richard Haass, who was Bush's top Middle East expert. "A new Iraqi dictator would undoubtedly be free of the sanctions crippling Baghdad today. Even those not eager to deal with Iraq would want to give the new guy a chance. Then, if he turned out like Saddam, he'd use the money he'd get when...
Panelists Richard Haass, Ronald Heifetz and Shirley Williams and moderator Richard Neustadt are all past or current members of the Kennedy School faculty. They addressed an audience of about 200 at an Institute of Politics forum titled "Leadership...
Real leadership is measured not so much by the number of followers one has as by one's ability to persuade, listen and be persuaded, said Haass, former director of the National Security Council and special assistant to President Bush...
...leader needs to be a manager," said Haass, author of The Power to Persuade. "There is usually a fundamental divide between the two, but in reality the two go hand-in-hand...