Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Arnaud de Borchgrave, a CSIS senior advisor, published a commentary in the Washington Times, "Mission unaccomplished."
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Arnaud de Borchgrave, a CSIS senior advisor, published a commentary in the Washington Times, "Mission unaccomplished."
President Bush's Air Force One was still airborne on its way back from a six-country, eight-day tour of Middle Eastern capitals when agreements and understandings began to unravel.
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah was noncommittal on pumping more crude oil. With oil at $100 per barrel, all OPEC countries are already siphoning off at full capacity and the desert kingdom's now small extra capacity would be a drop in the global bucket. The six Gulf states, known as Gulf Cooperation Council, have already accumulated a cool $1 trillion nest egg — half of which is already assigned to SWF (Sovereign Wealth Funds) for investment abroad.
Mr. Bush's quid for the king's quo was $20 billion worth of high-tech military goodies over the next 10 years (still not authorized by Congress nor accepted by the king who is also shopping in Britain, France and Russia). Read the article
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