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	Strategic Insights -- Review of Kenneth M. Pollack's 'Arabs at War'
		Pollack's chosen factors, however reasonable in themselves, are not independent of each other, but, as the statisticians would say, "co-variant," sometimes severely so.
		Pollack is not prepared to settle for this sort of conclusion, though it is widespread in the Arab world, where military disappointment is routinely followed by the wholesale vilification and sacking of senior officers.
		Pollack's indifference to the social (and, indeed, political) dimensions of his subject is surprising in a book framed, at least putatively, in cultural terms.
	www.ccc.nps.navy.mil /si/2004/jan/moranRvJan04.asp (1386 words)

	Random House Trade \| The Persian Puzzle by Kenneth Pollack
		Here Pollack, a former CIA analyst and National Security Council official, brings his keen analysis and insider perspective to the long and ongoing clash between the United States and Iran, beginning with the fall of the shah and the seizure of the American embassy in Tehran in 1979.
		Pollack also describes efforts by moderates of various stripes to try to find some way past animosities to create a new dynamic in Iranian-American relations, only to find that when one side was ready for such a step, the other side fell short.
		KENNETH M. POLLACK is director of research at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.
	www.randomhouse.com /randomhouse/catalog/display.pperl?1400063159 (459 words)

	The Talking Points Memo DOCUMENT COLLECTION
		Ken Pollack is the author of The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq and currently a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
		POLLACK: Yes and no. I will say flat out [that] I was under the same impression: that we had a very good grip on their nuclear program and there really wasn't much of a nuclear program well into the 1990s.
		POLLACK: There is the ostensible reason of wanting to threaten Baghdad from the north and wanting to pin down Iraq's forces in the north.
	www.talkingpointsmemo.com /docs/pollack.html (4688 words)

	Kenneth Pollack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Kenneth Pollack is one of America's most renowned and influential experts on the Middle East and security affairs in the Persian Gulf and Iran.
		Pollack had different positions in the National Security Council: from 1999 to 2001 he was Director for Persian Gulf Affairs, and in 1995-1996 Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs.
		Pollack worked as senior research professor at the National Defense University (1998-99, 2001) and as Iran-Iraq military analyst at the CIA (1988-1995).
	www.americanacademy.de /index.php?id=54 (220 words)

	NPR : Interview : Kenneth Pollak Discusses Why He Is Convinced Now Is the Right Time to Invade Iraq
		Pollack was a Persian Gulf military analyst for the CIA and then a National Security Council official in the Clinton administration.
		POLLACK: Actually, I do agree with the view that it is likely that if we invade Iraq, we will trigger their use of weapons of mass destruction.
		POLLACK: I think that anti-Americanism is so rife in the region right now that there's no doubt that you're going to have a lot of people who are going to be angry about this.
	www.npr.org /programs/atc/transcripts/2002/nov/021110.inskeep.html (1738 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq: Livres en anglais: Kenneth M. Pollack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Pollack believed for many years that the United States could prevent Saddam from threatening the stability of the Persian Gulf and the world through containment—a combination of sanctions and limited military operations.
		Here, Pollack explains why containment is no longer effective, and why other policies intended to deter Saddam ultimately pose a greater risk than confronting him now, before he gains possession of nuclear weapons and returns to his stated goal of dominating the Gulf region.
		Pollack also analyzes the last twenty years of relations between the United States and Iraq to explain how the two countries reached the unhappy standoff that currently prevails.
	www.amazon.fr /Threatening-Storm-Case-Invading-Iraq/dp/0375509283 (818 words)

	The Threatening Storm - Council on Foreign Relations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Senior Fellow Kenneth Pollack argues that to prevent Saddam from acquiring nuclear weapons, the United States has little choice to topple the regime, eradicate its weapons of mass destruction, and rebuild the country as a prosperous and stable society.
		Pollack lays out five options available to the United States: bolstering containment, depending on a formal deterrence policy, mounting a covert action campaign, relying on airpower and the Iraqi opposition, and launching a full-scale invasion.
		Pollack is sober about the dangers, costs, and implications of invasion but ends by concluding that it is the best option.
	www.cfr.org /publication.html?id=4876 (1227 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Persian Puzzle: the Conflict Between Iran and America: Books: Kenneth Pollack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		When Pollack, formerly director for Gulf affairs at the National Security Council and a military analyst for the CIA, wrote The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq in September 2002, he both shaped the debate over the imminent invasion and helped persuade many reluctant Democratic policy makers to support the war.
		Pollack cautions that there are two ticking clocks: the first is internal regime change in Iran and the second is how long it will take Iran to go nuclear.
		Pollack, a director of research at the Brookings Institute, regards Iranian-American relations as complicated, fraught with danger, and unlikely to be improved by so-called decisive actions.
	www.amazon.ca /Persian-Puzzle-Conflict-Between-America/dp/1400063159 (602 words)

	ttgapers store - USA - The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America - Kenneth Pollack - Product Details :: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Pollack is one of the few writers on Iran to actually discuss the Persian psyche.
		Pollack goes far beyond that to explain why the Persians feel so insulted and threatened by the US's past and present behavior, their chauvinism/exaggerated importance in the world, and reasons for slow development, even decline in Iran's socioeconomic decline on many fronts.
		Kenneth Pollack's "The Persian Puzzle" is probably the best and most comprehensive analysis of the Iran that has received mainstream and widespread acclaim.
	www.ttgapers.com /module-ttStore-product-asin-1400063159-locale-us.html (1622 words)

	Stanley Kurtz on The Threatening Storm & Kenneth Pollack on National Review Online
		Pollack was one of the very few intelligence officials to warn his superiors in the first Bush administration about Saddam's imminent invasion of Kuwait.
		But Saddam, Pollack argues, because of the tribal culture in which he was reared, and because of his own personal peculiarities, does not act in the way that Americans expect him to act.
		Above all, Pollack gives chapter and verse substantiating the argument I made in "The Future Is Now" and especially in "Brave New World." In those pieces I maintained that nuclear proliferation tends to embolden rogue nations, even as it cows "rational" nations.
	www.nationalreview.com /kurtz/kurtz092602.asp (1816 words)

	Asia Times - Asia's most trusted news source for the Middle East
		Pollack, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst now at the Brookings Institution, seeks to explore the roots of problems between Iran and the United States over the past quarter-century.
		Related, Pollack presents a skewed analysis of post-revolutionary state-building in Iran and simultaneously refers to the present regime as the "worst sponsor of terrorism" and also as an increasingly moderate regime that "has no history of reckless behavior".
		At times, Pollack appears undecided as to where the chips are falling regarding the evolution of the Iranian system, contradicting himself particularly when discussing the Iranian nuclear issue.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/FL03Ak01.html (736 words)

	DIGITAL VIDEO CONFERENCE: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; Dr. Kenneth Pollack - The Brookings Institute; Moderator: ...
		Pollack is at the Brookings Institute, where he's the Director of Research for the Saban Center for Middle East Policy.
		POLLACK: This is a very important question, and I'll tell you that when I speak to friends from the region, from the Middle East, when I was out there -- I'm often out there in the region -- what I consistently hear is exactly that question come back to me from so many Arabs.
		POLLACK: He was helping all of the Iraqi refugees coming across the Jordanian border, and what they were saying to him, again, unanimously, was they are desperate to be rid of Saddam Hussein, and they welcomed a U.S. war.
	www.usembassy.ru /embassy/print_transcript.php?record_id=3 (4942 words)

	The Threatening Storm, by Kenneth Pollack - Quarter To Three Forums
		Pollack shows just how badly the administration has screwed up advocating an Iraq war; the book is pretty much a point-by-point analysis of policy options based on the historical record and Saddam's known goals, and makes a damn convincing argument.
		This pdf covers it; officials raping relatives of prisoners as they're forced to watch is of particular interest, as is dipping people alive into vats of acid.
		And that leads to the ideas that Pollack can express that would be much more problematic for the administration - for instance, the book's utterly frank assessments of Iraq's neighbors and the P-5.
	www.quartertothree.com /game-talk/showthread.php?t=1431 (634 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Threatening Storm: the Case for Invading Iraq: Books: Kenneth Pollack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Even if Pollack's evidence for WMD has now been refuted, it at least gives some insight into the developments and modes of thought which guided the intelligence agencies in coming to their conclusions.
		Pollack's case, and the administration's, largely ignore the real issues and rush to military solutions that make problems ultimately worse from immense disorder and blowback.
		Pollack does not see that far and 'buys' a military solution to what is not primarily a military problem.
	www.amazon.ca /Threatening-Storm-Case-Invading-Iraq/dp/0375509283 (2440 words)

	ParaPundit: Kenneth Pollack: Why Iraq Can't Be Deterred
		Kenneth Pollack, former National Security Council official in the Clinton Administration, has a new book just out entitled The Threatening Storm which is about Iraq and the necessity of taking out Saddam's regime.
		The frightening scenario described by Pollack, in which Saddam could seize Kuwait and threaten to nuke the Saudi oil fields if we attack, is something I've never seen publicly discussed.
		Saddam, as Pollack shows, "is generally not deterred by the threat of sustaining severe damage." Instead, he has a "tendency to invent outlandish scenarios that allow him to do whatever it is he wants to do, no matter how dangerous." Again, these generalization become real in Pollack's book.
	www.parapundit.com /archives/000159.html (728 words)

	Amazon.com: The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America: Books: Kenneth Pollack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Pollack heaps particular scorn on two presidents: Jimmy Carter, whose ill-timed embrace of the shah enraged and radicalized Iranian students; and George W. Bush, who muffed a serious opportunity for a breakthrough after 9/11.
		Kenneth Pollack worked for 7 years as a Persian Gulf military analyst at the CIA and for 3 years as Director for Gulf affairs at the National Security Council official.
		Now to be sure, Pollack is not the only author I've read that has done this, but that's no excuse, and also as someone working in the government he knows darn well that the U.S. was violating the spirit of the same UN resolutions at the same time Iraq was.
	www.amazon.com /Persian-Puzzle-Conflict-Between-America/dp/1400063159 (4146 words)

	Hypotyposis on a Good Day: What does Kenneth Pollack think today?
		Both Lloyd and I wrote about Kenneth Pollack's Threatening Storm some time ago in our blogs as a must-read book in assessing the case for an invasion of Iraq.
		Pollack's book made me think, "hey maybe there is a sound case to be made for war given how Iraq might become an even more terrible menace to the world".
		Joe Conason's Journal points to a recent NPR interview with Kenneth Pollack.
	raymondyee.net /blog/archives/000014.html (453 words)

	Amazon.com: The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq: Books: Kenneth M. Pollack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Pollack goes into great detail in explaining how he has done and is doing this, as well as giving numerous facts and details as to how waiting any longer will only make the situation for us and the rest of the world...
		Mr Pollack was the Middle East expert under the Clinton regime and he passed on his ideas to the Middle East expert under the Bush regime (zzzz).
		Pollack essentially assisted Bush in making a case for an unwarranted, baseless pre-emptive attack and occupation on a defenseless, non-threatening nation is inexcusable.
	www.amazon.com /Threatening-Storm-Case-Invading-Iraq/dp/0375509283 (3610 words)

	The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq - Kenneth M. Pollack
		Therefore, it is unfortunate that in his final chapter Pollack damages his argument by rhetorical excess.
		In The Threatening Storm, Kenneth M. Pollack, one of the world’s leading experts on Iraq, provides a masterly insider’s perspective on the crucial issues facing the United States as it moves toward a new confrontation with Saddam Hussein.
		Increasingly, the option that makes the most sense is for the United States to launch a full-scale invasion, eradicate Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction, and rebuild Iraq as a prosperous and stable society—for the good of the United States, the Iraqi people, and the entire region.
	www.biblio.com /books/83604799.html (826 words)

	ParaPundit: Kenneth Pollack: The inspections are a trap
		ParaPundit: Kenneth Pollack: The inspections are a trap
		Kenneth Pollack, author of The Threatening Storm, questions the wisdom of the entire UN Security Council drive of the Bush Administation.
		Pollack does not think the UN inspections regimes will achieve any worthwhile goals.
	www.parapundit.com /archives/000508.html (605 words)

	Kenneth Pollack
		Kenneth Pollack, of the Brookings Institution, and Reuel Marc Gerecht, of the American Enterprise Institute, both play the role of secretary of state—Pollack with a more Democratic perspective and Gerecht as more of a Republican.
		David Kay plays the CIA director and Kenneth Bacon, a chief Pentagon spokesman during the Clinton Administration, is the White House chief of staff.
		Pollack states that “...the MEK as best I can tell, [inaudible] on the intelligence community, has very little support inside of Iran.” [Council on Foreign Relations, 1/12/2005]
	www.cooperativeresearch.org /entity.jsp?entity=kenneth_pollack (951 words)

	The Shape of Days: Interview with Kenneth Pollack
		Kenneth Pollack is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of the book The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq.
		From 1995 to 2001, he served on the National Security Council, first as Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs and later as Director for Persian Gulf Affairs, and from 1988 to 1995 he was an Iran-Iraq military analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency.
		Pollack also co-authored a January 27th New York Times op-ed with fellow senior fellow (heh) Dr.
	theshapeofdays.com /2003/02/interview_with_kenneth_pollack.html (1040 words)

	The Blog \| Philip Weiss: Kenneth Pollack, Iran Expert Who's Never Been There \| The Huffington Post
		Saddam, concluded Pollack, could not be contained and would continue to seek nuclear weapons until he threatened the world's oil with complete destruction.
		Pollack has been going around claiming his info was correct but the administration botched the war.
		Pollack may very well be an "expert" (in what remains unclear).
	huffingtonpost.com /philip-weiss/kenneth-pollack-iran-exp_b_20248.html (2511 words)

	The Persian Puzzle: An Interview With Kenneth Pollack
		In his new book, The Persian Puzzle, Kenneth Pollack argues that regime change is not the answer to dealing with Iran—instead, the Bush administration is going to have to flex some diplomatic muscle.
		It certainly won't be easy: the U.S. and Iran have built up a lot of animosity over the past few decades, and overcoming this distrust will be difficult, requiring a series of carrots and sticks from both the United States and her allies.
		Pollack, a veteran of both the CIA and the National Security Council, recently sat down with MotherJones.com over the phone to talk about Tehran's long, bloody relationship with the West, its nuclear program, the prospects for regime change, and most critically, the future of America's Iran policy.
	www.motherjones.com /news/qa/2005/01/kenneth_pollack.html (3809 words)

	Kenneth Pollack's The Threatening Storm - By Chris Suellentrop - Slate Magazine
		Pollack's reluctant tone, his respect for doves' sincere and patriotic motives (Pollack says the term "appeasers" is a "vicious slander"), his emphasis on the humanitarian virtues of regime change, and his somewhat dismissive attitude toward the over-optimistic unilateralism of the "far right" all suggest that he was writing with a liberal audience in mind.
		Pollack has even stated that an invasion, if not carried out skillfully enough, could be disastrous.
		Conservatives frequently trot out Pollack's book to impugn the motives and the morals of those who criticize the way Bush has led the nation into war.
	www.slate.com /id/2079705 (1493 words)

	American Capital - - Kenneth Pollack
		Pollack was a member of the Corporate and Securities and Real Estate practice groups of Arnold and Porter LLP in Washington, D.C., and McLean, Virginia, where his practice focused on public and private mergers and acquisitions, buyouts, private equity and secured lending transactions in a variety of business sectors.
		Pollack graduated from Vanderbilt Law School, where he is a member of Order of the Coif, and where he served as Special Projects Editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review.
		Pollack received his Bachelor of Arts in International Relations, cum laude, from Tufts University.
	www.americancapital.com /our_people/people/kenneth_pollack.html (157 words)

	The Threatening Storm : The Case for Invading Iraq - Kenneth M. Pollack
		As the principal author of the CIA’s history of Iraqi military strategy and operations during the Gulf War, Pollack gained rare insight into the methods and wor kings of what he believes to be the most brutal regime since Stalinist Russia.
		Examining all sides of the debate and bringing a keen eye to the military and geopolitical forces at work, Pollack ultima tely comes to this controversial conclusion: through our own mistakes, the perfidy of others, and Saddam’s cunning, the United States is left with few good policy options regarding Iraq.
		Pollack believed for many years that the United States could prevent Saddam from threatening the stability of the Persian Gulf a nd the world through containment, a combination of sanctions and limited military operations.
	www.biblio.com /books/9859921.html (1461 words)

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