The mystery of America : Rice down the tubes.

[rodeodance]

> The mystery of America
> By Gideon Levy Oct. 9, 2006 Haaretz
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> It happens once every few months. Like a periodic visit by an especially annoying relative from overseas, Condoleezza Rice was here again. The same declarations, the same texts devoid of content, the same sycophancy, the same official aircraft heading back to where it came from. The results were also the same: Israel promised in December, after a stormy night of discussions, to open the "safe passage" between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. This time, in what was considered the "achievement" of the current visit, Israel also promised to open the Karni crossing. Karni will be open, one can assume, only slightly more than the "safe passage," which never opened following the previous futile visit.
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> Rice has been here six times in the course of a year and a half, and what has come of it? Has anyone asked her about this? Does she ask herself?
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> It is hard to understand how the secretary of state allows herself to be so humiliated. It is even harder to understand how the superpower she represents allows itself to act in such a hollow and useless way. The mystery of America remains unsolved: How is it that the United States is doing nothing to advance a solution to the most dangerous and lengthiest conflict in our world? How is it that the world's only superpower, which has the power to quickly facilitate a solution, does not lift a finger to promote it?
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> In the Middle East, the U.S. has an opportunity to fundamentally change its image, from a warmonger to a peacemaker. And how does the U.S. respond to the challenge? It sends Rice to tell the excited Ehud Olmert how she falls asleep easily on her unnecessary and ridiculous flights to and from the Middle East.

[dipsydoodle]

1. Guess she's checking the buggy

she's got on order

[Vinnie From Indy]

2. She is as amoral and dishonest as the rest of the BushCo elite

Condi realized years ago that the price of admission into the BushCo cabal is complete loyalty and the ability to lie daily.

[razors edge]

3. she's just there to drop off the big check,

pick up the smaller check, and get the marching orders.

[Phx_Dem]

4. don't get your post

care to clarify?

[razors edge]

5. Billions in, Millions out.

when Israel has a problem, Bush is there to solve it.

DeYoung also writes that Powell believes Bush sees the Palestinian/Israeli struggle in "black and white" terms and called Rumsfeld's team "the JINSA crowd," a reference to the neoconservative Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs.

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/459063p-386181c.html


"We want to make peace — peace with Israel," Assad told the German magazine Der Spiegel last month. In an interview with the British Broadcasting Corp. broadcast Monday, Assad said it remained to be seen whether Israel had the will to make peace.

Olmert has rejected talks with Syria, accusing it of harboring terrorists and saying he will not relinquish the Golan

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061010/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_syria;_ylt=ArHG76oAJNWcidI5bn6uOgxvaA8F;_ylu=X3oDMTA0cDJlYmhvBHNlYwM-

Aug 2002- Israel To U.S.: Don't Delay Iraq Attack

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/08/18/world/main519037.shtml


Feb 2003- Israel Says War on Iraq Would Benefit the Region

http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/attack/consequences/2003/0227benefit.htm


AIPAC espionage scandal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIPAC_espionage_scandal

I'm sure there is more floating about if you need it.

[Phx_Dem]

6. Bush sees everything in "black and white".

I don't want to assume anything about your post, but stating that Rice goes to Israel to get her "marching orders" is absurd.