The Foreign Service Journal, July-August 2019

18 JULY-AUGUST 2019 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL and nine bad things, I’m out.’” In an interview June 3 with Sinclair Broadcast Group, Sec. Pompeo clarified his remarks: “I can see how someone might be concerned that a plan that this administration put forward might, with- out knowing the true facts of what is con- tained in the plan, they might perceive that it was going to be fundamentally one-sided. And I was articulating that there because it’s just simply not true.” The Trump administration has been planning to unveil economic portions of the peace plan at an economic confer- ence in Bahrain at the end of June. But SecState Expresses Doubts on Middle East Peace Plan S ecretary of State Mike Pompeo told Jewish leaders during a closed-door meeting that the Trump administra- tion’s long-awaited, Middle East peace plan might be “unexecutable” and might not “gain traction,” the Washington Post reported June 2. “It may be rejected,” he said in an audio recording of the private meeting. “Could be in the end, folks will say, ‘It’s not particularly original, it doesn’t work for me,’ that is, ‘It’s got two good things A mbassador (ret.) Deborah McCarthy is the host of “The General and the Ambassador,” a p od- cast featuring conversations between U.S. generals and U.S. ambassadors on their strategic and operational teamwork to defend and advance U.S. global interests. Listen in as these senior leaders talk about the respon- sibilities, missions and results of their joint efforts in key combat theaters and during humani- tarian crises. The podcast already has more than two dozen episodes featuring retired ambassadors including Bill Brownfield, Ryan Crocker, Stu Jones, Hugo Llorens, Victoria Nuland, Tom Schieffer, Kathy Stevens, John Tefft, PODCAST OF THE MONTH: THE GENERAL AND THE AMBASSADOR Mary Yates, Susan Ziadeh and former Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonprolif- eration Tom Countryman. Military leaders who appear on the podcast include generals Lloyd Austin, Bruce McClintock and David Petraeus and admirals Michelle Howard and James Stavridis. The episodes cover U.S. efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Africa, Europe, Rus- sia, Haiti, Latin America and many other global hotspots. The series is a project of The Una Chapman Cox Foundation in partner- ship with the American Academy of Diplomacy . Find the podcasts at https://www.generalambassador podcast.org.