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ury, industry and business leaders, thought leaders in think tanks and academe, and journalists. Day one speakers include former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former National Security Advisor John Bolon; U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Kelly Craft, and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison; 8:00 AM • CDC

rs include former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former National Security Advisor John Bolon; U.S

onal Guard Bureau in a ceremony at Fort Meyer in Washington." Hokason's "predecessor, retiring Air Force Gen. Joseph Lengyel, was the last member of the Joint Chiefs to be nominated during the Obama Administration. Now, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the top officers at each military service were chosen by

ervatives like Paul D. Wolfowitz pressed a doctrine of preventive war and put it into effect in Iraq. Eventually, more pragmatic conservatives like Condoleezza Rice pulled the president back toward diplomacy. Over the last four years, Republicans tried to paper over their divisions. In the 2008 and 2010 electi

has derided Mr. Obama's handling of foreign policy (notably on Iran and Israel) with overheated rhetoric but only vague hints at alternatives. Ms. Rice (whose rhetorical jab at Mr. Obama's "leading from behind" was a big applause line) and Mr. McCain (whose calls for aiding the Syrian opposition dr

Obama Editorial August 31, 2012 -- Barack Obama is fond of insisting that he "has Israel's back." Maybe he should mention that to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. In remarks to journalists in London quoted by the Guardian, General Martin Dempsey warned that any Israeli attack on Iran would "clearly EFTA0071

ury, industry and business leaders, thought leaders in think tanks and academe, and journalists. Day one speakers include former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former National Security Advisor John Bolon; U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Kelly Craft, and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison; 8:00 AM • CDC

rs include former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former National Security Advisor John Bolon; U.S

onal Guard Bureau in a ceremony at Fort Meyer in Washington." Hokason's "predecessor, retiring Air Force Gen. Joseph Lengyel, was the last member of the Joint Chiefs to be nominated during the Obama Administration. Now, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the top officers at each military service were chosen by

mits to what the United States would do to nurture democracy, whether there, or in Bahrain, Libya, Tunisia or Yemen. The president's goal, said Ms. Rice, who discussed the review for the first time in an interview last week, is to avoid having events in the Middle East swallow his foreign policy age

ng mistakes made in Iraq and Afghanistan. With President Obama and Congress apparently disinclined to push the military to fix itself, it is up to the Joint Chiefs, especially Chairman Martin Dempsey and the heads of the Army (Gen. Raymond Odierno) and the Marine Corps (Gen. James Amos), to do so. It is their