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There's one problem with this quote, which is the one similar person to hold an advisory role not just for a potential president, but as the White House Chief of Staff was Rahm Emanual, who served in the Israeli military. So maybe Walid Phares is hoping to be the next Emanual? 

"I can't think of any earlier instance of a [possible presidential] adviser having held a comparable formal position with a foreign organization," says Paul Pillar, a 20-year veteran of the CIA and a professor at Georgetown's Center for Peace and Security Studies. "It should raise eyebrows any time someone in a position to exert behind-the-scenes influence on a US leader has ties to a foreign entity that are strong enough for foreign interests, and not just US interests, to determine the advice being given."

  Walid Phares lecturing in front of a Lebanese Forces banner in 1986 Photo courtesy of An-Nahar