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Rice’s Tough Week In The Middle East: "US Policy...Has Come To A Dead End"

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Rice’s Tough Week In The Middle East: "US Policy...Has Come To A Dead End"

Rice’s Tour of Mideast Yields Little Progress on Key Issues

By Robin Wright
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, October 8, 2006; Page A29

LONDON, Oct. 7 — It was a tough week for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in the Middle East. On four issues pivotal to the future of the world’s most volatile region, U.S. diplomatic efforts made no visible progress or came up against unexpected resistance during her five-day tour, according to Arab and Israeli officials and analysts.

On Iraq, Arab-Israeli peace, democracy promotion and fostering a so-called moderate bloc of Arab states to stand together against militancy, Rice pressed at each of six stops for new energy or more decisive action. Many of the Arab leaders she met share U.S. fears about the region’s future, but there is a growing divide even with Washington’s closest allies over what needs to be done, at what pace, in what order and by whom, according to Arab officials interviewed at each stop.

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  • The Arabs, the losers that they are are waiting for the U.S. to take the lead with ideas and force.

    The Arabs, the losers that they are are do not have enough pride, nor guts to call Condi on her lies.

    The Americans, the racists that they are are out of ideas as they cannot think beyond the narrow bigotted view that they forever have held.

    It is an excellent plataeu the they have reached together.

    To break the logjam the Americans will just continue on the path of destruction. The Arabs will just tolerate and accept and accomodate the Americans.

    This century is lost...

    • 4.57: The Century has only begun, it is too soon to call it lost. The world’s present condition does indeed look very bleak but one should never lose hope. There are billions of us human beings that agree on the most important issues of the day. There are billions of us that want nothing special but peace and freedom & the chance to live our lives with dignity. What we lack is true world leadership. What we have now is not world leadership but a cancerous growth that serves the most greedy and the most corrupt people on our planet. This cancer pretends to serve world peace, but all of its actions tell us quite the opposite. This ’leadership’ class is a minute portion of our world’s population and they can be found everywhere in the world, but the most powerful and the most treacherous are in the US. As soon as the American people take care of this human garbage here at home, peacefully through the voting polls, and remove them from power forever, we will see our hopes for this century throughout the world revived.
      But even if the American people fail to do this, it would not mean that the world is lost. IF the world must learn to survive without America, it will. The world will find a way to defeat the forces of darkness, no matter how powerful they may be.
      But one must have faith in humanity to start this process. Without faith in our own ability to lead ourselves we will be lost.

  • The policy of none diplomacy is indeed nothing which can keep states attracted to the U.S.! Big mistake of Rice and creeps like Bolton.