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BooMan’s story – Obama’s Vision and Foreign Policy [July 15, 2008}
Senator Obama spoke in his speech about George Marshall … so did recently Mitt RMoney in Virginia, also on foreign policy. More about George Marshall, the founding of Israel and President Harry Truman.
Mitt Romney, George Marshall, and Israel-Palestine
(Washington Note) – During a major foreign policy address earlier today at the Virginia Military Institute, GOP presidential candidate Governor Mitt Romney paid tribute to one of the school’s most distinguished graduates, former Secretary of Defense and Secretary of State as well as Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall.
Romney said of Marshall that he “helped to vanquish fascism and then planned Europe’s rescue from despair. His commitment to peace was born of his direct knowledge of the awful costs and consequences of war.”
What he didn’t share about General Marshall was that he vehemently opposed recognizing Israel and instead favored U.N. trusteeship after British withdrawal slated for midnight, the 14th of May, 1948.
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Washington's Battle Over Israel's Birth (Washington Post)As reported in a fascinating historical snippet by the late Richard Holbrooke, who helped organize presidential adviser Clark Clifford’s papers for a co-authored memoir, then-President Harry Truman overruled George Marshall, the secretary of state he “revered” along with “James V. Forrestal, George F. Kennan, Robert Lovett, John J. McCloy, Paul Nitze and Dean Acheson” and did recognize Israel.
