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'Obama Middle East team beware'

A friend I knew from my Washington days has given me permission to share a pessimistic email he recently sent me. 

A bit about the writer: Colonel Dermer, or “P.J.” as I know him, recently retired from the US Army. His background and military career was quite unusual, and he has a remarkable bluntness, which is naturally why I took a liking to him. He spent over 30 years in the Army and was thrust into a myriad of US-Mideast issues, almost always in an operational capacity.

PJ filled several roles at various US embassies, including the impossible job of working between the Israeli and Palestinian security services during the George W Bush years.