Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Jon Alterman, director of the CSIS Middle East Program, was quoted by Congressional Quarterly, "Surrogates to Set Tone on War Debate."
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Jon Alterman, director of the CSIS Middle East Program, was quoted by Congressional Quarterly, "Surrogates to Set Tone on War Debate."
The Senate’s three presidential candidates will capture much of the attention at Tuesday’s Iraq hearings, but Democrats will try to frame the latest debate over the war before Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama even have the chance to speak.
Jon Alterman, director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said Clinton and Obama are likely to strike different tones.
“I think that the challenge is probably toughest for Sen. Obama, who is perceived as the candidate who would push for the quickest withdrawal, but also the candidate with the least direct foreign policy experience,” Alterman said. “Pleasing his constituencies and being critical, but not seeming rash or naïve, is a tough needle to thread.”
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