"Edward L. Peck is a retired career United States diplomat who served thirty-two-years in the U.S. Foreign Service (from 1956 until 1989).This lecture by Edward Peck, delivered at University of California Irvine in May 2011, has less than 50 views on YouTube. That is crazy and shameful. It should have at least 50,000 views. Peck has immense diplomatic experience in the Middle East and he tells the truth about the unhealthy relationship that America has with Israel.
Edward Peck served as Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (U. Alexis Johnson) in the Nixon Administration, January 1971. He was Chief of Mission in Baghdad (Iraq, 1977 to 1980) in the Carter Administration and later held senior posts in Washington and abroad. He also served as a Foreign Service Officer in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt, and as Ambassador in Mauritania. At the State Department he served as Deputy Director of Covert Intelligence Programs, Director of the Office of Egyptian Affairs and as Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for Political Affairs. He served as deputy director of the White House Task Force on Terrorism in the Reagan Administration. He is president of Foreign Services International, a consulting firm that works with governments, businesses and educational institutions across the world."
In this one and a half hour lecture, Peck cuts through the bone of the Middle Eastern body politic and provides a voice of reason, humour, peace and conscience. He embodies the type of American leadership that America, the Middle East and the world desperately needs in this century.
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