Talk:Brent Scowcroft

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This primary article on Brent Scowcroft needs a pronunciation of his surname. Does it rhyme with snow-cost or now-cost? Those of us who live outside the DC beltway need to know.

The name is in my family tree and we in Northern England, where the surname comes from, usually pronounce it SKOW-croft, and some people down south say SCO-croft. I don't know how Americans should or should not pronounce it. XPhile2868 (talk) 18:33, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Scowcroft is pronounced SCO-croft. I married a relative of Brent Scowcroft and have on many occasions been corrected in my pronunciation of the name. 143.250.2.10 (talk) 22:07, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

The first external link (which I posted), is an oral history interview with Scowcroft. In about 56:55 or so, he pronounces his own name: the "Scow" part rhymes with the word "go".Cindytriangle (talk) 15:27, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

- Andrew Sullivan Scowcroft Award should not be simply deleted. It is a parody but a fair one. Scowcroft's predictions on Afghanistan were mostly wrong and it is worth noting. ---

The Bush administration is bracing
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 -- The Bush administration is bracing for a powerful new attack by Brent Scowcroft, the respected national security adviser to the first President George Bush.

A Republican and a former Air Force general, Scowcroft is a leading member of the bipartisan foreign policy establishment, and his critique of both of the style and the substance of the Bush White House, is slated to appear in Monday's editions of the New Yorker magazine.

The article also contains some critical comments on the handling of U.S. foreign policy by the current President Bush from his father, whose 1989-1993 presidency is hailed for deft management of the end of the Cold War, German unification, the first Gulf war and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The new attack comes hard on the heels of the denunciation of "the cabal around Cheney's office" by Col. Larry Wilkerson, the chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell in a widely reported speech to the New American Foundation in Washington this week. Wilkerson said the national security decision-making process was effectively "broken."

Scowcroft's criticisms will be taken seriously at the highest levels of the Bush administration because he is seen as a mentor by some of its senior figures, notably Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, whose political career began when she worked under Scowcroft as an adviser on Soviet affairs.

The attack also comes as President Bush's opinion poll approval ratings have sunk to around 37 percent, partly reflecting the ill-handled federal government response to Hurricane Katrina's devastation of the Gulf coast. But majorities of Americans are also telling pollsters the country "is on the wrong track" and saying the Iraq war was a mistake.

The beleaguered Bush administration is also nervously waiting to see whether indictments in the CIA leak case are to be handed down next week against two key White House aides, Karl Rove and "Scooter" Libby. The White House is facing heavy flak from its conservative base over the controversial nomination of the president's counsel, Harriet Miers, to the vacant seat on the Supreme Court. And traditional balanced-budget conservatives have been dismayed by the double deficit, a combined deficit on the federal budget and on the current account that adds up to over $1 trillion this year.

A cartoon in the Washington Post Friday depicted the Bush White House being inundated by "The Perfect Storm" of Miers, Hurricane Katrina, Iraq, Rove, the budget deficit and the indictment this week of the Republican leader in the House of Representatives, Tom DeLay, on charges of money laundering campaign funds.

Middle East Peace

 * Gen. Scowcroft reminds us that in 2002 all Arab nations, in a move instigated by Saudi King Abdullah, pledged to enter into full normal relations with Israel upon its withdrawal from all Arab lands occupied by Israel in 1967. But this was ignored by the White House The neocon campaign to invade Saddam Hussein's Iraq already dominated all thinking about the Middle East.

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External link?
Would an interview with transcript with Brent Scowcroft from 1987 be useful here as an external link? Focus of conversation is nuclear weapons policy. http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_4A1D4C6E39F1404E90EB9B8ED9787014 (I have a conflict of interest; otherwise I would add it myself.) Mccallucc (talk) 13:55, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

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Moving dead external links here for the time being
Here are three links that are no longer valid - If we can get useful information from Internet Archive or something and we want to re-incorporate these into the article, then great.


 * Transcript: Charlie Rose interviews Zbigniew Brzezinski, Henry Kissinger and Brent Scowcroft, International Herald Tribune, June 18, 2007.
 * "Don't Attack Saddam" by Brent Scowcroft.
 * Brent Scowcroft speech to Harvard Kennedy School, October 29, 2008.

KConWiki (talk) 05:49, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

Too much copied
WAY too much has been copy/pasted from the NY Times obit. I'm not prepared to rewrite.--Paleolith (talk) 03:57, 10 August 2020 (UTC)