Friday, July 24, 2009

Obama: More political naivete

Whether it is Iran or Honduras ... Obama is naive and those who counsel him know less than he does.

His change platform - bringing Israel to the table, halting settlement, all the talk he gave, the speeches in Turkey and Egypt, and ....

Monday, June 29, the Washington Post offered three reasons for the White House's decision to ease up on its "absolutist" position:

"First, it has allowed Palestinian and Arab leaders to withhold the steps they were asked for… Second, the administration's objective… is unobtainable… No Israeli government has ever agreed to an unconditional freeze and no coalition could be assembled… to impose one. Finally, the extraction of a freeze from Netanyahu is, as a practical matter unnecessary… both the Palestinian Authority and Arab governments have gone along with previous US-Israeli deals by which construction was to be limited to inside the periphery of settlements near Israel - since everyone knows those areas will be annexed to Israel in a final settlement…"


Reality sets in. It wasn't Bush's intransigence, it wasn't the US refusal to talk, or the US tied up in Iraq that ...

Naive.












Obama

Make Mine Freedom - 1948


American Form of Government

Who's on First? Certainly isn't the Euro.