Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Jon Alterman, director of the CSIS Middle East Program, and Anthony Cordesman, the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, appeared on National Public Radio's Morning Edition, "President Bush Begins Mideast Trip."
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Jon Alterman, director of the CSIS Middle East Program, and Anthony Cordesman, the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, appeared on National Public Radio's Morning Edition, "President Bush Begins Mideast Trip."
President Bush sets off Tuesday on an eight-day swing through the Middle East.
He's going to visit key Gulf allies to talk about what he sees as a rising Iranian threat, despite a recent intelligence report that says Iran halted a nuclear weapons program. The president is also going to try to nudge Israelis and Palestinians toward peace. [...]
"A friend who used to work in the White House told me this president doesn't like to tee things up; he's a closer. He likes to close deals. And this deal is not ready to be closed," Alterman says. [...]
"People are going to be polite. They will be accommodating in some ways, but they are well aware that this is not only an election year. It is an election year from an administration that really has no heir that can really speak for the future or run for the future," Cordesman says.
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