On her recent trips to the Middle East , Ms. Rice was accompanied by two men with very different outlooks on the conflict : Elliott Abrams , senior director at the National Security Council , and C. David Welch , a career diplomat and former ambassador to Egypt who is assistant secretary of state for Near East affairs .
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