Brandini speaks

The man John Kerry frequently refers to as Brandini (Lakhdar Brahimi, former Algerian Foreign Minister and an Arab nationalist) is the figure promoted by the State Department to oversee the development of a future Iraqi government, and the White House has signed on to that. Laurie Mylroie directs us to this article from Ha’aretz in which Brahimi calls Israeli policy “the biggest poison in the region” and asks: “Is this what we want?”

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