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Elliott Abrams

American Lawyer

Born: Jan 24, 1948

Been People Politics Will World You

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Obviously, every dictator pays a great deal of attention to who is running the army. There's always a base right outside the capitol to protect the head of government. Elliott Abrams

Government Great Army Great Deal Every Running Outside Head Attention Protect Obviously Deal Always Dictator Capitol Who Pays Base Right

Tunisia is small - just ten million, no great natural resources. Elliott Abrams

Great Natural Resources Ten Small Just Tunisia Natural Resources Million

Why are diplomatic cables secret at all? Elliott Abrams

Secret Diplomatic Why

The Arab view that someone should bomb Iran and stop it from developing nuclear weapons is familiar to anyone who meets privately with Arab leaders, especially in the Gulf. Elliott Abrams

Meets Arab Gulf Weapons Someone Developing Leaders Iran Privately Familiar Stop Anyone Should View Who Bomb Nuclear Nuclear Weapons

At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk human rights debates with the West. They had their arguments ready. Elliott Abrams

I first met Kim Dae Jung when he was a Korean dissident whose life was threatened by the military regime ruling in Seoul. I was Ronald Reagan's Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, and Kim was directed to me because the East Asia Bureau at the State Department had long shunned him. Elliott Abrams

Life Me Rights Long First Met Military Human Rights State State Department Secretary Ruling Kim East East Asia Threatened Directed Had He Him Because Korean Reagan Department Bureau Human Regime Asia Whose Shunned Assistant

Pessimism is rife in Israel. Elliott Abrams

Israel Pessimism Rife

I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats - kind of middle-of-the-road democrats. Elliott Abrams

Teacher Family Class School Mother Father Lawyer Kind City New School Teacher Democrats Were Queens Up York New York Middle New York City Middle Class Grew Middle-Of-The-Road Public Public School Jewish

The United States already has in place comprehensive trade sanctions against Sudan, imposed because of the regime's support for terrorism. While we maintain diplomatic relations, we do not staff our embassy there. Elliott Abrams

Terrorism Relations Our States Embassy Diplomatic Diplomatic Relations Comprehensive Support Maintain Because Trade Imposed Staff Place Regime While Against Sanctions Sudan United United States

Being an Arab leader has its rewards: the suite at the Waldorf-Astoria during the United Nations General Assembly, travel in your own plane, plenty of cash, even job security - whether kings, sheiks or presidents, with or without elections, most serve for life. Elliott Abrams

Life Travel Job Leader Own United Nations Suite Presidents Plenty Arab Job Security Security Kings Cash General General Assembly Most Without Nations Rewards Being Whether Plane Elections Your Assembly Even United Serve

The war on drugs is not being won, and it continues to threaten stability and democracy not only in the Andes but throughout the Caribbean as well, where tiny police and military forces are outclassed by the sophisticated equipment in the hands of traffickers passing through the region on the way to their market in this country. Elliott Abrams

War Democracy Police Country Military Caribbean Market Way Threaten Only Through Throughout Sophisticated Well Forces Equipment Passing Won Hands Stability Tiny Being Where War On Drugs Region Military Forces

In Jordan, where the prime minister is always a commoner, the king has announced some new reforms that would tend to move the country toward a more democratic system: Notably, the prime minister would emerge from the victorious political party, not from back room conversations in the royal palace. Elliott Abrams

Political King Country Party Back System Minister Would Some Emerge More Tend Jordan Toward Prime Prime Minister Announced New Democratic Always Political Party Reforms Move Where Conversations Commoner Victorious Room Palace Royal

The Obama administration has been trying out a new policy toward Syria since the day it came to office. The Bush cold shoulder was viewed as a primitive reaction, now to be replaced by sophisticated diplomacy. Outreach would substitute for isolation. Elliott Abrams

Day Diplomacy Isolation Cold Syria Out Has-Been Obama Administration Obama Administration Would Outreach Toward Since New Primitive Sophisticated Reaction Policy Came Been Replaced Office Trying Substitute Bush Shoulder Viewed Now

I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about. Elliott Abrams

You No Idea About Never Had Idea Most Said Things

In 2004, President Bush gave Prime Minister Sharon certain guarantees about American policy, but the Obama administration treated those as a kind of private letter having no binding policy impact. Elliott Abrams

President Gave President Bush Those Kind Minister Obama Administration Obama Administration Impact About Having Sharon Prime Prime Minister Policy Private American Bush American Policy Certain Binding Letter Treated Guarantees

Sometimes the results of a first free election will find the moderates so poorly organized that extreme groups can eke out a victory, as Hamas did when it gained a 44-to-41 percent margin in the Palestinian election of 2006. Elliott Abrams

Now in its third year in office, the Obama Administration has never championed the cause of human rights. Its slow reaction in June 2009 to the stealing of the election in Iran and the birth of the 'Green Movement' there, and its delay in backing the rebellions in Egypt, Libya, and Syria, are evidence of this problem. Elliott Abrams

Rights Problem Cause Election Slow Delay Year Human Rights Birth Backing Evidence Syria Libya Obama Administration Obama Administration Stealing Never Reaction Iran June Green Office Egypt Human Movement Now Third

China has concluded that trade trumps all. Elliott Abrams

Trade Concluded China

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