Thursday, November 20, 2008
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Ed Lasky: Obama's One-Stop Shop for Foreign Policy Advisers - '...One place he may go for help is an influential non-governmental organization (these are popular in the liberal sphere): the International Crisis Group (ICG). The ICG is formally based in Brussels but has offices around the world (Washington, D.C., of course, is a major office)...the group might be considered a proto-State Department. It has a roster of foreign policy analysts who travel throughout the world...This group also has ties to Barack Obama. One of its major donors is prominent Obama supporter George Soros, who received a "Founders Award" from the ICG. He also serves on its board and executive committee. Indeed, the ICG was founded by former UN official Mark Malloch Brown, whose involvement in the oil-for-food scandal and close ties to George Soros were controversial...'
