Because Condi Rice is incompetent....
Condi Rice isn't trusted with Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkey.... She's only allowed to go to Russia with a Robert Gates backbone. The major powers view her only as a messenger and do all their deal making with Cheney or Hadley.
So, as the Middle East "peace deal," the only major initiative Condi Rice has been working on, looks likely to fall through, in goes Stephen Hadley.
She is really, really bad, and they know it, but they won't replace her.
So, as the Middle East "peace deal," the only major initiative Condi Rice has been working on, looks likely to fall through, in goes Stephen Hadley.
President Bush is sending his national security adviser to the Middle East next week to keep up pressure on Israel and the Palestinians to reach agreement on launching formal peace talks, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday.
She is really, really bad, and they know it, but they won't replace her.
posted by mikevotes at
7:49 AM
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It will be interesting to see what Hadley does differently. The Middle East stalemate never basically changes...it always comes back to Israel's security.
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Anonymous, at 9:22 AM
There's not that much that can be accomplished, but with such a visible effort, there's alot of US credibility on the table, so Hadley's being sent in to get some kind of document everyone can sign.
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mikevotes, at 1:02 PM
This Israeli-Palestinian peace process has always been a process of bringing the horses to water. But as the old saying goes you can't make them drink.
There's too much hate to have peace...
and speaking of Iraq...
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-epm, at 9:15 PM
Agreed. No settlement was likely, but after all the effort put in, you would expect a statement of some type.
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mikevotes, at 9:54 PM
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