Rice fails to deliver at Mideast negotiations

[ck4829]

Hoping to turn the page on six years of stalled Mideast negotiations, the U.S. instead found itself boxed in Sunday by a characteristically complex political impasse involving ally Israel and the Palestinians.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice came to the region intending to lead a symbolic peace summit. Her plans, however, have been eclipsed amid uncertainty and disagreement over how to handle last week's sudden announcement of a power-sharing deal to end internal Palestinian fighting.

Rice met for two hours with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, resolute in his position that he must govern hand-in-hand with Hamas militants who refuse to moderate anti-Israeli policies. The United States consider Hamas a terrorist group.

Later Sunday, the U.S. diplomat held a similarly long meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert over a similarly hard-line position.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070218/ap_on_re_mi_ea/rice_mideast

[quinnox]

1. Condi fails again

[LiberalFighter]

10. Her right hand looks like it is infected

See the blotches as if something is spreading through her veins.

[Edweird]

16. what a surprise.

:eyes:

[ixion]

2. like all the so-called 'architects' of the illegal invasion of Iraq

Condi is inept, and class A failure, IMO.

[Tempest]

3. Rice has no one to blame by herself

She went into the negotiations making statements about what was expected that the Palestinians couldn't deliver on under any reasonable conditions.

I personally believe Bush and Olmert want a civil war in Palestine.

[EFerrari]

5. Or maybe the genocide they're already getting. n/t

[Tempest]

11. With a civil war

Bush and Olmert can overly fund Fatah and speed up the genocide of Hamas and their civilian supporters.

Which is exactly what Bush is doing in Iraq by supporting the Shiites.

[cali]

21. Oppression? Yes. Apartheid in the OT? Yes.

Genocide? No. And you terribly demean real genocides that have happened and are happening when you accuse the Israelis of perpetrating genocide on the Palestinians.

Disgusting.

[EFerrari]

22. cali, I'm going to save us both a lifetime of disgust right now. n/t

[mediaman007]

4. Let's see if she can apply the lessons of 9-11. A few more weeks

and the Israelis and Palestinians should be at it again.

[rodeodance]

6. as Madeline Albright said---it does take HARD WORK-back and forth

and back and forth for days on end. condi likes to slip in for a few hours and a photo shot or two and then complains about no progress.

[fooj]

7. What a STUNNING development...

:sarcasm:

[Clarkie1]

8. She might have had a chance at being helpful if she visited Iran and Syria as well. nt

[Bobbie Jo]

9. Do we even HAVE a Secretary of State?

Totally MIA...:eyes:

[LiberalFighter]

12. She probably thinks being a Secretary is actually being a secretary

[madrchsod]

14. actually that is what she is

and she`s very bad at it

[madrchsod]

13. there`s nothing to deliver

she went there with nothing to offer so how in the hell could anyone say she had something to offer?

[Grandrose]

15. No Surprise There!

Just more of the same, hit and run diplomacy.
Rice is a disgrace and totally incompetent(911)...anyone?
Peters' Principle at it's ultimate.:dunce:

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

17. I guess Chimp-Fluffing skills don't exactly equate to diplomatic savvy

[spanone]

18. When you only use diplomacy to deflect your other crimes, it never works.

[Rex]

19. Rice A Failure - the American Treat!

How bout some more of that delicious failure pie! Mmmmm!

[applegrove]

20. Quelle Surprise!