Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Anthony Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, was quoted by Agence France Press, "Bush Leaves Mideast Legacy of Unresolved Problems."
In the Media | Detail
Anthony Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, was quoted by Agence France Press, "Bush Leaves Mideast Legacy of Unresolved Problems."
JERUSALEM (AFP) — As George W Bush left Israel on Friday, with only months to go as US president, he appeared confident his legacy there and in the wider Middle East would be a positive one.
Anthony Cordesman, a regional expert at the Washington-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies, mentions a few more facts that are not nearly as encouraging.
Firstly, he points to the 2006 summer war between Israel and Lebanon's Shiite militant group Hezbollah "with all of the repercussions, what it did in terms of impressions of the IDF (Israeli army), Israeli security."
Cordesman also referred to a September 2007 Israeli attack on what the United States claims was a nuclear reactor in Syria, pointing to fears that Damascus might be seeking its own atomic weapons or aiding ally Iran in its suspected bid to acquire them.
"The United States, I think, has endorsed it, and I frankly have my sympathy for that," Cordesman said.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is a private, tax-exempt institution focusing on international public policy issues. Its research is nonpartisan and nonproprietary. CSIS does not take specific policy positions; accordingly, all views, positions, and conclusions expressed in these publications should be understood to be solely those of the authors.
