Bill Burns, Biden’s savvy choice for CIA Director
The veteran diplomat will tell Biden what he doesn’t want to hear, and that’s a good thing. And refreshing.
Graham E. Fuller is a former senior CIA official and author of numerous books on the Muslim World. His first novel is “Breaking Faith: A novel of espionage and an American’s crisis of conscience in Pakistan,” followed by “BEAR — a Novel of Eco-Violence in the Canadian Northwest.”
The veteran diplomat will tell Biden what he doesn’t want to hear, and that’s a good thing. And refreshing.
The short answer is, no, it is not. Yet it may be understandable why the US might well believe it so.
This latest act of “foreign policy by assassination” will be largely rejected by most in the world. Only a few craven Gulf kings and princes—and Israel—will applaud it.