June 17th, 2008 by Matt

In yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, Jay Solomon had a piece featuring interviews with three experts believed to have been highly influential in formulating Barack Obama’s recent speech before AIPAC–Dennis Ross, Daniel Kurtzer, and James Steinberg.  The three strategists offer Solomon some insight and detail about how an Obama administration might approach engagement with Syria and Iran, and why the candidate believes his strategy is the correct one.

At theatlantic.com, Robert Kaplan says that Sen. Obama must modify his withdrawal proposal as conditions on the ground in Iraq continue to improve. Kaplan argues that political and strategic adjustments by Secretary Gates (as well as Gen. Petraeus and Amb. Crocker) can offer Obama important lessons on how to carefully reposition himself as the situation in Iraq changes.

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