Will Mika Brzezinski's Brother Be Named U.S. Ambassador to Poland?



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As the son of Uganda's former Ambassador to the United States and United Nations, the whole ambassadorship game and how it's played, intrigues The Corsair. "Diplobrats" -- whose childhood are filled with frequent change of schools and countries and court intrigues -- are obsessed with these things as, to some degree, army brats, who also experience frequent change of schools in childhood, are with military affairs (How many daughters of military men marry military men? How many sons of military men enlist?). And so we find it especially intriguing that in the Obama Presidency -- symbolized by "Change" -- big money donations are going to play less of a role than in any time in American History since the foundations of the Republic. How positively Ugandan! From Foreign Policy:

"As the recent Gen. Anthony Zinni case demonstrates, behind the scenes and mostly under the radar, the Obama administration is busy slotting U.S. ambassadors for key assignments across the globe, weighing multiple considerations.

"Former professional diplomats have encouraged the administration to put more career diplomatic professionals at key posts, along with appointees with foreign policy expertise in the countries they will serve as envoy to, rather than big money donors.

".. Former Clinton-era NSC official Ivo Daalder is expected to be appointed U.S. ambassador to NATO. Daalder, now with the Brookings Institution, led the team advising the Obama campaign on nonproliferation issues. Scheduled to take place in just under 40 days, the NATO summit in April will top his agenda. Daalder declined to comment. Current U.S. ambassador to NATO Kurt Volker is likely to be named to another ambassadorship, sources said. Volker wouldn't comment on his plans. 'Right now, I'm focused on trying to make sure that President Obama's first NATO summit is a success,' he said.

"Sources said former Clinton-era NSC official Mark Brzezinski is possibly going to be named as U.S. ambassador to Poland. Brzezinski, the son of former Carter national security advisor Zbigniew Brezinski, speaks Polish, associates note. Brzezinski, a partner at McGuireWoods, did not respond to a query.

"Lee Feinstein, the former Clinton-era State Department deputy director of policy planning who coordinated outside foreign-policy advisors for Hillary Clinton's primary campaign, is expected to be named to an ambassadorship (not clear where: associates have mentioned Prague, the European Union, Geneva, or OSCE/Vienna). Feinstein, now at the Brookings Institution, declined to comment."

Joe Scarborough, who likes to kid, in populist fashion, that Mika Brzezinski comes from an elite, sort of diplobratic DC family. But if Mark Brzezinski gets the post, he will bring an unprecedented degree of foreign policy experience and knowledge to the post.