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"The president-elect is coming into office at a moment when there is upheaval in many parts of the world simultaneously," Kissinger responded. "You have India, Pakistan; you have the jihadist movement. So he can't really say there is one problem, that it's the most important one. But he can give new impetus to American foreign policy partly because the reception of him is so extraordinary around the world.
His task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period when, really, a new world order can be created.
It's a great opportunity, it isn't just a crisis."
How could one of Obama's key men in Afghanistan appear before Congress and not be quizzed on his spectacular conversion from prophet of doom to cheerleader-in-chief for the new Afghan strategy?
As the President mulled the military's plea for tens of thousands of new troops last year, his ambassador to Kabul, Karl Eikenberry, cautioned Obama: "[Afghan] President Karzai is not an adequate strategic partner."
Warning that Karzai wanted to see the US bogged down in Afghanistan for ever,
Eikenberry seemed to be warning Obama of a deliberate Afghan trap.
"...the powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporations."
* Guillermo Ortiz Martínez, Mexico City (Chairman of the Board of Directors)
* Hans Tietmeyer, Frankfurt am Main (Vice-Chairman)
* Ben Bernanke, Washington, DC;
* Mark Carney, Ottawa;
* Mario Draghi, Rome;
* William Dudley, New York;
* Stefan Ingves, Stockholm;
* Mervyn King, London;
* Jean-Pierre Landau, Paris:
* Christian Noyer, Paris;
* Guy Quaden, Brussels;
* Jean-Pierre Roth, Zürich;
* Masaaki Shirakawa, Tokyo;
* Jean-Claude Trichet, Frankfurt am Main;
* Paul Tucker, London;
* Alfons Vicomte Verplaetse, Brussels;
* Axel A. Weber, Frankfurt am Main;
* Nout Wellink, Amsterdam;
* Zhou Xiaochuan, Beijing
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