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Next, Locusts?
Weekly Standard, by Elliott Abrams

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Posted By:Dreadnought, 11/7/2009 12:47:53 AM

Can anything else possibly go wrong for the Obama administration's Middle East policy? In the past ten days, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has twice reversed herself publicly on her attitude toward the Israeli settlements. Palestinians have refused her direct request to rejoin peace talks with Israel, and Palestinian Authority president Abbas has said he will not run for reelection. U.S.-Israel relations are in


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Reply 1 - Posted by: oriton, 11/7/2009 1:09:00 AM     (No. 6007303)

Isn't it great. The world loves us again. You go, Hillary.


 
 


Reply 2 - Posted by: thelmalou, 11/7/2009 3:01:31 AM     (No. 6007439)

President O is so glaring in his incompetence that one almost forgets about the boob at Foggy Bottom. Ye gods.


Reply 3 - Posted by: nightvision, 11/7/2009 4:58:51 AM     (No. 6007506)

FTA: 'The Israelis gave the White House weeks of notice that Netanyahu had agreed to speak, would be in town, and hoped to see Obama. The White House reaction has been to keep him twisting in the wind, with news stories several days before his arrival saying the president had NOT DECIDED YET whether to see Netanyahu.'

'But thus far, the anniversary of Obama's election appears to have passed with no rethinking of policy. Instead the administration slogs forward, judging itself by its ELEVATED INTENTIONS rather than its performance.'

Clueless...absolutely clueless.

Having Zippy and Co. jerk Hillary around and make her appear ridiculous on the 'world stage' looks good on her. When she said re foreign policy that she 'could hit the ground running', she didn't know it would be on her FACE!


Reply 4 - Posted by: Spidey, 11/7/2009 5:53:25 AM     (No. 6007547)

The reason for the failure is they're working with a flawed theory to begin with.They've made the settlements the issue when it's really all the countries that won't recognize Israel's right to exist.Until that happens it's going to be a permanent stalemate.


Reply 5 - Posted by: WhamDBambam, 11/7/2009 6:42:13 AM     (No. 6007611)

Boy, that SmartPower(tm) is working about as well here as it did for Hillary!Care.


Reply 6 - Posted by: gandolphxx, 11/7/2009 11:51:13 AM     (No. 6008565)

FTA: The policy is indeed a complete failure. In ten months the administration has managed to offend and demoralize Israelis and Palestinians, lose the support of Arab governments, and reduce previously excellent relations with the government of Israel to levels unmatched since the James Baker days. Meanwhile, George Mitchell's trips to the region are increasingly reminiscent of the Colin Powell visits in 2002 and 2003--producing little but embarrassment. The Israeli "100 percent settlement freeze" and the Arab outreach to Israel, early goals of the Obama team, are now forgotten, as is an early resumption of serious Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

Ain't it great that the messiah has fixed all tthe things that GWB did wrong.

If locusts are next let us hope that they settle in the WH, and both houses of congress - maybe stay a week or two.



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