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"Viewpoint with James Zogby" Tackles Foreign Policy

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Posted on Tuesday January 15, 2008

Don’t miss these two special “Viewpoint with James Zogby” presentations on America’s Foreign Policy.

January 17, 2008 at 5 p.m. EST (rebroadcast throughout the week)
Foreign Policy Experts Discuss President Bush’s Trip to the Middle East

Daniel Levy and Ghaith Al-Omari on the Middle East Peace Process
New America Foundation’s Middle East Project Director Daniel Levy and Senior Research Fellow Ghaith Al-Omari will join Zogby to discuss the Middle East peace process. Both Levy and Al-Omari worked on the model Geneva Initiative agreement—Levy as the lead Israeli drafter and Al-Omari as the lead Palestinian drafter. Levy is a former Israeli negotiator and advisor in the Israeli Prime Minister’s office. Al-Omari is the former International Policy Director and Advisor to the President of the Palestinian Authority. Both belong to the American Strategy Program at New America, and were significantly involved with the conference in Annapolis, MD in December.

Amb. Chas Freeman and Joe Cirincione on President George W. Bush’s recent trip to the Middle East.
Amb. Chas Freeman, former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia (1989-92), will offer unique insights into the Saudi view of President Bush’s first diplomatic visit to Saudi Arabia and other Middle East countries. Joe Cirincione, Senior Fellow and Director for Nuclear Policy at the Center for American Progress and author of Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons, will discuss the implications of Bush’s trip for U.S. relations with Iran.

January 24, 2008 at 5 p.m. EST (rebroadcast throughout the week)
Two of the country’s top national security experts talk about the Bush Administration’s policies, programs, and legacy.

Anthony Cordesman, ABC News National Security Analyst and Burke Chair in Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Cordesman has held government posts in Lebanon, Egypt, and Iran, and worked extensively in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf, as well as assignments with NATO, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the State Department. Highly respected for offering crisp, nonpartisan analyses of international security and U.S. defense issues, Cordesman has been a harsh critic of the Bush Administration’s policies in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter, currently teaches as a professor of American foreign policy at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies and is a scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. A co-chair of President George H.W. Bush’s National Security Advisory Task Force (1988), Brzezinski also vocally opposed the first Gulf War. He has recently been appointed as an advisor to the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama.