A Question for Brookings President Strobe Talbott

Why is Ken Pollack still the public face of Brookings Institution foreign policy? A lot of us would like to know.

Eschaton: One F.U. ago on Meet the Press, Ken "what the hell is he still doing on my teevee" Pollack had this to say:

MR. POLLACK: Well, the basic point that we’re trying to make is that the president wants this one last shot, it’s obviously very late in the game, there is no guarantee that it’s going to work out. I think that even the administration would say that the likelihood of it working is probably less than 50-50. If it fails, we are going to find Iraq even worse than it is today. It will probably slide into a Bosnia or Lebanon-like all-out civil war. That’s going to be disastrous not just for Iraq and the Iraqi people, but potentially for other countries around it, perhaps even for the entire region...

Comments

[Justin X]

C'mon, you know why!

He's the "Director of Research" for the Saban Center for Middle East Policy. This means that billionaire Saban pays the bills and calls the shots. Hence, Pollack remains there to give voice to the right-wing Israeli lobby from the vaunted position of leader of a "liberal" institution.