 [American Thinker] Wherever Ben Rhodes goes, lies follow. Obama's foreign policy is cooked up by a very small group of people, among them Ben Rhodes, his deputy national security adviser. This should trouble Americans. I have been writing about Rhodes for years. He has a pattern of twisting the truth to serve his masters. All of 37 years old and untrained in diplomacy, he pontificates omnisciently on Obama's mastery of world politics. He was the drafter of the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group. This report was criticized for deviating from its main goal to analyze the Iraq War under George W. Bush. Instead, it advised outreach to Iran and distancing from Israel. Some of the witnesses called were suspect because of their lack of expertise as well as their biases. Other witnesses were shocked by the report upon its publication because they said it did not reflect their testimony, and in fact distorted what they had conveyed. In other words, their testimony was fictionalized. Who was the...(Read Full Article) |