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Obama: I Misjudged The Will For Peace
« on: January 22, 2010, 09:08:00 AM »
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Jerusalem Post

By:  Herb Keinon



Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met US Mideast envoy George Mitchell Thursday night, a few hours after Time magazine published an interview with US President Barack Obama in which he admitted that he erred during his first year in office by raising too high expectations of a Middle East breakthrough.

"I'll be honest with you, this is just really hard," Obama said when asked about the Middle East. For all his administration's early engagement in the conflict, he acknowledged, things were not where he would want them to be.

"This is as intractable a problem as you get," Obama said. "Both sides - the Israelis and the Palestinians - have found that the political environment, the nature of their coalitions or the divisions within their societies were such that it was very hard for them to start engaging in a meaningful conversation. And I think that we overestimated our ability to persuade them to do so when their politics ran contrary to that."

Obama said that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas had "Hamas looking over his shoulder and, I think, an environment generally within the Arab world that feels impatient with any process."

As for Israel, he said that while Jerusalem showed a willingness "after a lot of time" to make "some modifications" in policy, it "still found it very hard to move with any bold gestures."

"I think it is absolutely true that what we did this year didn't produce the kind of breakthrough that we wanted, and if we had anticipated some of these political problems on both sides earlier, we might not have raised expectations as high," Obama said.

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Re: Obama: I Misjudged The Will For Peace
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2010, 09:12:13 AM »
OMFG. What a tool. WTF does a community organizer who's never ran anything except his mouth understand about diplomacy and world affairs?

I wonder how many people will buy this crap? Answer: all of them? :whatever:
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Re: Obama: I Misjudged The Will For Peace
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2010, 09:12:38 AM »
This is the natural result of utter inexperience and belief in your own hype and bullshit running into a solid wall of reality.
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Re: Obama: I Misjudged The Will For Peace
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2010, 09:21:05 AM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on January 22, 2010, 09:12:38 AM
This is the natural result of utter inexperience and belief in your own hype and bullshit running into a solid wall of reality.

Liberal ideology rarely survives it's first contact with reality.
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Re: Obama: I Misjudged The Will For Peace
« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2010, 09:25:51 AM »
Sorry, Barry.  There remains only one Prince of Peace.  It isn't you - no matter what your master, the prince of darkness, promised you.   
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Re: Obama: I Misjudged The Will For Peace
« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2010, 10:43:03 AM »
Did he really think that either the Israelis or the Palestinians would sacrifice what they believe is their best interest for "peace"?  Was he really so naive that he believed that he could do what nobody before him has been able to do.  He really must believe his own hype.
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Re: Obama: I Misjudged The Will For Peace
« Reply #6 on: January 22, 2010, 10:54:06 AM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on January 22, 2010, 09:12:38 AM
This is the natural result of utter inexperience and belief in your own hype and bullshit running into a solid wall of reality.


Exactly!

Even Hillary gets it right......

from the end of the article...

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Meanwhile, during a press conference in Washington with British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Thursday night, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said that while the US would continue to work for Middle East peace, it was ultimately up to Israel and the Palestinians.

"This issue is between Israel and the Palestinians," she said. "The US, UK, EU and the Arab League, everybody can work together to create a positive atmosphere, we will continue to do whatever we can, and we urge both parties to return to the negotiations table

While anyone may encourage two parties to talk and work out some sort of reconcilliation to an issue....ultimately the two parties are the ones who must be the ones to reach the reconcilliation.

Obama doesn't understand that.....he thinks he can flutter his magic personalilty around and people will rush to do whatever he asks.

May work on his Merry Band of Idiots.....they are dependent upon him for a paycheck.

Everyone else is starting to recognize, or has recognized, that the man doesn't know shit what he's doing.
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