Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Anthony Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, was quoted by the Los Angeles Times, "Bush Visits Ally Saudi Arabia."
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Anthony Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, was quoted by the Los Angeles Times, "Bush Visits Ally Saudi Arabia."
President Bush today began one of the most diplomatically challenging stops of his six-nation passage across the Middle East, arriving here just hours ahead of an expected formal announcement of a major arms sale to this desert kingdom.
Bush is seeking to use Saudi Arabia both as a heavyweight balance to neighboring Iran and to encourage the Saudis to support peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians. [...]
"It has run into serious problems with the Congress," said Anthony Cordesman, a Middle East and arms expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, who noted that the threat posed by Iran was the reason for the deals — although it was not the stated reason for it.
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