Amb. Zalmay Khalilzad recalls his time as U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq in his book “The Envoy.” He discusses this, the nation’s relationship with the Middle East, and the upcoming U.S. elections with HuffPost Live. Source: HuffPost Live
Former Iraq & Afghanistan Ambassador On Our Success & Failures In The Middle East
“We made a catastrophic mistake to abandon Iraq under President Obama. While I congratulate President Obama for his decision against Bin Laden, but I think what he did, disengaging from the region, has given rise to a worse terrorist movement which is ISIS.” —-Former US Ambassador to Iraq & Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad on the consequences of pulling troops out of …
Ambassador Khalilzad appears on Fox & Friends
On Monday, March 21, 2016 Gryphon Partners President, Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad appeared on Fox & Friends to discuss American grand strategy and his memoir, The Envoy. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Source: Fox News
Iranian General Aided a U.S. Political Aim in Iraq in 2006, Envoy Reveals
By: Jay Solomon WASHINGTON—The George W. Bush administration indirectly cooperated with a powerful Iranian spymaster in 2006 to unseat then-Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, the former U.S. ambassador to Baghdad, Zalmay Khalilzad, said in an interview. The revelation offers a markedly different view of the Bush administration’s relationship with Iran, a country Mr. Bush once denounced as part of a global …
“The Envoy: From Kabul to the White House”, by Zalmay Khalilzad
Review by Geoff Dyer From Dick Cheney to Donald Rumsfeld, the administration of George W Bush has come to be defined by its most abrasive personalities. But one of the most intriguing individuals to play a leading role in the Bush-era wars is Zalmay Khalilzad, a polished diplomat who was the most senior Muslim in the White House at the …
Cold Peace between Iran and Saudi Arabia?
By: Zalmay Khalilzad Among the more intriguing parts of Barack Obama’s recent interview with Jeffrey Goldberg is the vision he expounds for Middle East order. The President traces the proxy wars and chaos of the region to the “competition between the Saudis and the Iranians” and argues that the solution is for the Saudis to “share” the Middle East with …
U.S. Conferred With Iran Before Iraq Invasion, Book Says
By: Michael R. Gordon WASHINGTON — Senior American officials held confidential talks with Iran about Iraq’s future in advance of the United States-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein, and secured a promise that the Iranian military would not fire at United States warplanes that strayed into Iranian airspace, according to a new book by a ranking Bush administration official. The …
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