This summer Jones, a retired general whose previous positions included US Marine Corps commandant and NATO supreme allied commander, was reportedly on Barack Obama's shortlist of vice presidential candidates, and has since been mentioned periodically as a possible national security adviser in an Obama administration.
US Middle East security coordinator James L. Jones, long expected to produce a document spelling out Israel's security needs after the creation of a Palestinian state, will not in the end present the Bush administration with a large-scale report, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
Retired Marine Gen. James Jones accompanied bySecretary of State Condoleezza Rice, speaks at the State Department in Washington.
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"There is not going to be any Jones report that lays out the whole strategic vision of what a post-agreement reality would look like," one US official said. "There is not going to be one consolidated report." Jerusalem Post
The Worry Is This: During the final debate with McCain on October 15, 2008, Obama said this about Jones: "Let me tell you who I associate with... If I'm interested in figuring out my foreign policy, I associate myself with my running mate, Joe Biden or with Dick Lugar...or General Jim Jones, the former supreme allied commander of NATO." Redwine
