Lopez: All things being what they are: If there’s a single good that can come of this conference, what would you urge the U.S. that it be?
Glick: The only good thing that can come from this conference is that President George W. Bush recognizes the harm that Rice is doing to the U.S.’s national-security interests by undermining the Bush doctrine. From the six-party talks with North Korea to her bizarre and dangerous decision to attempt to appease Iran by holding talks with the millenarian theocracy in Iraq; supporting the EU’s failed nuclear diplomacy and authorizing the U.N. Security Council to (mis)handle Iran’s nuclear-weapons program; to her seeming obsession with establishing a pro-Iranian, jihadist Palestinian state before the end of the Bush presidency; to her unpardonable neglect of Iraq, Rice has taken a knife to everything Bush has staked his presidency on.
If the failure of Annapolis causes the president to distance himself from Rice and end her foreign-policy supremacy, then in retrospect, the conference may have been worth the effort.
Lopez: What’s the Bush legacy in the Mideast likely going to be?
Glick: If Bush reins in his appeasement-mongering secretary of State and returns to the guidelines for U.S. foreign policy that he set out in his first term, then his will be a revolutionary legacy of freedom in the Middle East. The promising situation in Iraq, if allowed to progress will indeed bring about the first Arab democracy. Were the president to liberate the Palestinians from the tyranny of their terror leaders and antagonists in the Arab world, he could set the conditions for true peace between them and Israel. If he were to reignite his call for freedom and empowerment of liberals in the Arab world and if he were to make good on his pledge to support Iranian democracy activists, he would leave the region and the world safer, freer and less threatening than he found them when he assumed office.
If, on the other hand, he continues to empower Rice to undermine all he has fought for his legacy will be one of cowardice, betrayal, and failure.
Before this, there was Wye River...
And before Wye River there was Oslo...
And who can remember what was before Oslo, and who can tell me what any of these summits or agreements have changed? The Arabs still long for Jewish blood, even at the cost of the blood of their own children. Nothing that happens tomorrow will change that, and President Bush and SoS Rice have undertaken a fool's errand.
It's hard to see any outcome at all before the conference. Maybe after the conference there will be some outcome to see. Like knowing the score before the baseball game, I can tell you it is zero to zero.
The real question still remains. Why would President Bush do a 100% about face on foreign policy and simply allow Condi to provide moral equivalency of the 60’s oppression of African-Americans to the bloodthirst Palestinians? If anything, the Black Panthers failed in their attempt to use violence to earn equel rights, but Martin Luther King succeeded peacefully. So again, WHY!?!? Olmert is no better. What is wrong with these people? Is Arab perception more important that national security?
According to this web page, not only is Annalpolis “possible”, it is a sure step towards guaranteed success, according to prophecy!
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