Bush’s Mideast Recipe for Disaster

[kerrygoddess]

Bush’s Mideast Recipe for Disaster
July 30th, 2006 @ 10:57 pm



Israel has moved to suspend air attacks for 2 days on Lebanon, after a strike in a Lebanese village killed 57 civilians, “most of them children, huddled inside a three-story building in a small village.” Condi was ready to abandon diplomacy in the region, and the WaPo reports, she “told reporters early Monday morning that she would seek U.N. resolution this week that would bring a cease-fire soon.”

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Bush’s Mideast plans are simply put a recipe for disaster. At the center of this mess, Baker says, is “a broader struggle with Iran for influence in the Middle East, one that arguably has been going on since the Islamic revolution of 1979 and that has escalated during Bush’s presidency.”

Analysts think that if the war drags on, as appears likely, it could leave the United States more isolated than at any time since the Iraq invasion three years ago and hindered in its foreign policy goals such as shutting down Iran’s nuclear program and spreading democracy around the world.

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While team Bush has been playing the typical optimistic tune, “others are not so hopeful.”

Outside the White House, the mood among many foreign policy veterans in Washington is strikingly pessimistic, especially as leaders of Hezbollah and al-Qaeda, traditional rivals based in different Islamic sects, began calling for followers to take the fight to the enemy.

No matter which way we cast it at this point, it’s a freakin mess over there and the boy king is so out of his element that it’s beyond ridiculous. Someone needs to tell Bush this ain’t no meatloaf he’s messing with…

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[madeline_con]

1. "... spreading democracy around the world>'

This is rich! We have a guy who stole 2 elections telling the worlds how to start their very own "democracy". :puke:

[Erika]

2. W is so far over his head with death results because of it

The blood is on his hands.

[Erika]

3. And we see all the dead kids as he marches on to democracy

How very twisted of him and the bushbots.

[madeline_con]

4. He and Rice keep spouting nonsense about a "bigger picture".

I guess some of us just don't share their "vision".

[regnaD kciN]

5. So, Condi's going to introduce a U.N. resolution for a cease-fire...

...anyone want to take bets on the U.S. vetoing a resolution by its own Secretary of State? :grr: