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U.S. officials blast Bush's peacemaking record
2005-10-14
Two party hacks of the United States' key Middle East officials have criticized the Bush administration's lack of involvement in Palestinian-Israeli peacemaking. In remarks made last week at a new conference in Paris, former U.S. envoys to the Middle East Dennis Ross and Robert Malley commented on whether the Middle East peace process can be re-launched. "In the past four and a half years we've been the least prominent. Rather than engaging, we disengaged. Instead of building the Golden Gate Bridge, we built a footbridge," said Ross, Special Middle East Coordinator under the Bill Clinton administration. Ross was responsible for shaping U.S. policy in the region. His new book, "The Missing Peace-the Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace," recounts his 12-year involvement in the area. He is currently a fellow at the pro-Israel Washington Institute for Near East Policy, as well as chairman of an Israeli think tank, the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute.

Malley was Special Assistant to President Clinton for Arab-Israeli affairs from 1998-2000, and is now the Middle East and North Africa program director at the International Crisis Group, which works to prevent conflict worldwide.
Doesn't seem like either's been paying much attention.
Posted by:Fred

#14  Good night, Norm.
Posted by: Bobby   2005-10-14 20:33  

#13  Ever wonder why in general other countries are anti-American?

Bush is a poor right wing neo president and a stupid one at that, he demostrates it all the time.

Oh I think he's geat though, I work with him.

Well that's my 2 cents... watch this drive !
Posted by: Norm Coleman   2005-10-14 20:02  

#12  Shouldn't this headline refer to "Former" US Officials? There's a reason these guys are not US officials -- Bush won.
Posted by: Tibor   2005-10-14 16:46  

#11  Is this another Hebrew thing? Where's Amuah? She heps me with the older Testament. Amuah? AMUAH!
Posted by: Jimmuah   2005-10-14 11:47  

#10  Dennis Ross and Bill Clinton - building a footbridge to the 21st century...
Posted by: Raj   2005-10-14 11:39  

#9  Bang-up is the right word, all right.
Posted by: Curt Simon   2005-10-14 11:14  

#8  Was it Ross's idea to bring Arafat and the PLO to the West Bank and Gaza, or was it his bosses Albright and Clinton?
Posted by: ed   2005-10-14 11:12  

#7  "Ross, Special Middle East Coordinator under the Bill Clinton administration."

Not to mention what a bang-up job they did for the peace process.
Posted by: DepotGuy   2005-10-14 10:34  

#6  Malley was Special Assistant to President Clinton for Arab-Israeli affairs from 1998-2000

And we all know how much peace he brought to the region.
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2005-10-14 07:25  

#5  Ross is just pitching his new book. His agent said he needed to be more outrageous and, especially at a Paris venue, anti-Bush if he wanted to drum up sales.

This means he'll be making the Talking Head Tour of all the PseudoNews shows. Oh. Goody. More Camelot II Toxic Waste.
Posted by: .com   2005-10-14 04:28  

#4  He [Dennis Ross]is currently a fellow at the pro-Israel Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Pro-Israel being a code for "Doesn't say out in the open that the Zionist entity must be destroyed"?
Posted by: gromgoru   2005-10-14 03:22  

#3  Gotta give a man a few milliseconds or nanoseconds to take his foot off one pedal and put it in another, instead of the Left's gigaseconds - is there anyone faster at responding to waffles of the Lefties than THE FLASH, or NAGIN-BLANCO???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2005-10-14 00:56  

#2  Bush is on the verge of putting a 'W' in the win column for the US military, and these folks know it.
Posted by: badanov   2005-10-14 00:26  

#1  Ever wonder why in general other countries are anti-American?

Because we have assholes like Ross, Carter, Gore, Kerry, Andrew Sullivan, and several others who are whining abroad because the US is not doing what each of them want.

BTW - you will likely not find agreement amongst them either, other than Bush is evil.
Posted by: Captain America   2005-10-14 00:25  

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