During my latest visit to the U.S. to join President
Jimmy Carter... the worst president ever. Maybe the second worst. The votes aren't all in yet...
in announcing a new Israeli-Paleostinian peace initiative at Illinois College, I had the opportunity of meeting-up with old friends as well as several high-ranking officials and executives. I have a fondness for the American people. Many have been unfailingly kind to me. But U.S. policy is another matter entirely; it knows no friends, only interests. Former CIA Chief and Defence Secretary Leon Panetta
...current SecDef, previously Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993....
spelled that out clearly in his book "Worthy Fights." I don't object to that; it's beyond time that we took a leaf out of America's book.
For the sake of argument
Moreover, even if, for the sake of argument, the U.S. was committed to having our back, it's hardly result-oriented. As Ambassador Chas W. Freeman writes, "We [the U.S.] are trying to cope with the cumulative consequences of multiple failures. Just about every American project in the Middle East has now come a cropper." The ambassador rightly points out that U.S. "policies have nowhere produced democracy. They have instead contrived the destabilisation of societies, the kindling of religious warfare, and the installation of dictatorships contemptuous of the rights of religious and ethnic minorities."