LA Times Opinion Masquerading As News. Obama thinks that a peace deal can be achieved "within a year." Hillary has been assigned the thankless task. So our secretary of state wants a 'peace' deal that allows her to stand at the dais, look intelligent, and set herself up for a Nobel? She can join every other SoS of the past fifty years.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with Israeli and Palestinian leaders 11 times in three Middle Eastern cities last week, a diplomatic marathon that produced only promises that the adversaries remain committed to the latest U.S.-led peace initiative. Not exactly a Kissinger-esque breakthrough...
Clinton couldn't extract the result she needs: that the two sides put aside their differences over Jewish construction in the occupied West Bank and move on. Obama doesn't want a Clinton breakthrough. That's why he sent her to the New Graveyard Of Politicians.
"All of this is complicated," Clinton acknowledged at the end of a disappointing week. Welcome to Earth, Madame Secretary.
The trip's outcome was a sobering reminder of the challenge Clinton has accepted as the principal player in the Obama administration's ambitious effort to close a Mideast peace deal in one year.
Achieving a lasting peace deal has been a priority for almost every U.S. administration in the last 50 years. With President Obama focused on the U.S. economy, the peace talks offer Clinton the chance to shine with a dazzling breakthrough, but her efforts also could be derailed by disaster in the treacherous terrain of the Middle East. What Alternate Universe is this occurring in?
As the administration ratchets up expectations, the pressure on Clinton also rises, said David Makovsky, a veteran Middle East analyst at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
"The klieg lights are on," he said. "It's a trap!!"
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Given his highly selective enthusiasms, you can hardly blame a third of Americans for figuring their president must be Muslim. In a way, that's the least pathetic explanation: The alternative is that he's just a craven squish. Which is an odd considering he is, supposedly, the most powerful man in the world.
Awesome.
This whole 'Obama is a Muslim' thing is shaping up to be another FDR in a wheelchair, JFK philander, LBJ gay thing. Once he's out of office the MSM will tell us they knew all along, but couldn't reveal the truth because we can't handle the truth. Meanwhile they'll just keep looking aghast every time someone even suggests the possibility.
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So some in power in the U.S. are cowtowing to complaints, bullying, threats of violence by the muslims? To what purpose? Afraid of what?
For God's sake we are Americans. We have spilled the blood of many good Americans on muslim soil. For what purpose? It's sure as hell not to cave in to a bunch of thugs and give up back home. I get the feeling its Washington that needs to grow a pair and not the folks inside America. Were it up to them, these wars would have been over some time ago.
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But Molly Norris is merely the latest squishy liberal to learn that, when the chips are down, your fellow lefties won't be there for you.
If anyone bothered to read the numerous comments following the story posted by the Seattle newspaper, most opined that Molly knew beforehand the consequences of her actions, so she got what she deserved. Truly nausea-inducing. Took me a couple days to get over it. We're Sharia-compliant and we don't even know it.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
