One wonders just what rock Obama had to lift to find this guy:
…It now appears Mr. Obama has appointed a highly controversial figure to head the National Intelligence Council, which is responsible for producing National Intelligence Estimates. The news Web site Politico.com yesterday reported that it could confirm rumors that a former Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Charles “Chas” Freeman Jr., has been appointed chairman. (My calls to the White House and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence produced neither confirmation nor denial.)…
…In 1997, Mr. Freeman succeeded George McGovern to become the president of the Middle East Policy Council. The MEPC purports to be a nonpartisan, public-affairs group that “strives to ensure that a full range of U.S. interests and views are considered by policy makers” dealing with the Middle East. In fact, its original name until 1991 was the American-Arab Affairs Council, and it is an influential Washington mouthpiece for Saudi Arabia.
While President Obama speaks of helping the people of Israel “search for credible partners with whom they can make peace,” Mr. Freeman believes, as he said in a 2007 address to the Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs, that “Israel no longer even pretends to seek peace with the Palestinians; it strives instead to pacify them.” The primary reason America confronts a terrorism problem today, he continued, is “the brutal oppression of the Palestinians by an Israeli occupation that is about to mark its fortieth anniversary and shows no sign of ending.”
Although initial reaction to Mr. Freeman’s selection has focused on his views of the Middle East, that region is by no means Mr. Freeman’s only area of interest. He has pronounced on a wide variety of other subjects, including China, where he has attempted to explain away the scale and scope of the starkly intensive buildup of the People’s Liberation Army. The specter of a Chinese threat, he remarked during a China forum at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in October 2006, is nothing more than “a great fund-raiser for the hyper-expensive advanced weaponry our military-industrial complex prefers to make and our armed forces love to employ.”
On the massacre at Tiananmen Square in 1989, Mr. Freeman unabashedly sides with the Chinese government, a remarkable position for an appointee of an administration that has pledged to advance the cause of human rights.
That a man so out of touch with reality could be even considered for head of intelligence shows how entirely clueless Democrats are about the world we live in. If this goes through, we are going to pay a price in blood for it – if this is the man to write our intelligence estimates, then we can rest assured that threats from Islamists and Chinese imperialism will be ignored, and likely ignored until it is too late.
This is another badge of shame for those on the conservative side who voted for Obama – we have littered throughout the Executive branch people who will work diligently to thwart the best interests of the United States and its allies. People who view America as the problem and our enemies as the aggrieved party. Don’t blame kooks like Freeman – he’s doing what he thinks is best, or at least what he’s paid to do by the Saudis and the Chinese. Blame ourselves, for allowing this purblind Administration to obtain power – and then remember, now and forevermore, that elections aren’t just exercises in political gamesmanship, but events which may determine who lives and who dies.
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