Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Jon Alterman, director of the CSIS Middle East Program, was quoted by Reuters, "Cheney to Mideast with 'Rich Agenda' on Oil, Peace."
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Jon Alterman, director of the CSIS Middle East Program, was quoted by Reuters, "Cheney to Mideast with 'Rich Agenda' on Oil, Peace."
Vice President Dick Cheney left on Sunday for the Middle East to raise concerns about high oil prices, push Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, and seek support for Iraq, where war began five years ago this week. [. . .]
"The mood has deteriorated incredibly in the last six weeks since the president was there," Jon Alterman, director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said.
"From the outside it's very hard to see that Secretary Rice was able to even arrest the slide let alone get things moving forward. My guess is the vice president will be able to arrest the slide if not necessarily put things on track," he said.
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