Dennis Ross, during his tenure as a highly respected Mideast envoy back in the then-hopeful 1990s, was a visible if soft-spoken presence in Washington and around the world. He looked in control and held fairly regular news conferences, as public officials are wont to do when they have some progress to report.
He talked regularly to reporters. This time around, serving first in Hillary Rodham Clinton’s State Department and then as President Obama’s adviser in the White House, Ross was the invisible man.
An invisible man running what was virtually an invisible policy. And now, Ross is leaving an empty stage virtually without footprints.
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