HuffPost/Media: Fareed Zakaria Admits He's Advising Obama
CNN's Fareed Zakaria admitted on Thursday that he has been having regular discussions with President Obama about national security and foreign policy.
Asked by Eliot Spitzer on Thursday's "In The Arena" if Obama has been calling him up lately, Zakaria said, "mostly it's been face-to-face meetings...usually organized by Tom Donilon, the national security adviser."
He said Obama was spending a lot of time "thinking about the issues of the Arab Spring," and added, "it's been a very thoughtful conversation. You know, we'll see where it goes."
There's video at the link if you can bear it. And just in case you don't remember exactly who Zakaria is, he wrote a stunner at Newsweek called, Radical Islam Is A Fact of Life: How to Live With It.
... and a book called The Post American World (Release 2.0 coming soon).
ArtsBeat blog (so-called) at the New York Times, May 21, 2008: "What Obama Is Reading." And there's an excerpt of the book at... you guessed it... Newsweek.
For my humble opinion, feel free to go back and review "The Gradualism of Fareed Zakaria: Cushioning Our Descent into a Post American World" (BtB, 21 June 2010).
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