Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “Television was our chief tool in selling our policy.” ~ Richard Haass (1951- ) President of the Council on Foreign Relations since July of 2003, National Security Council Senior Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs (1989-93) U.S. National Security CouncilSource: on the U.S. War with Iraq. New York Times, Nov. 5, 1991, p. B3