This is stunning news but not at all unexpected from the dysfunctional administration of George Bush and Dick Cheney: instead of trying to negotiate and promote peace agreements in the middle east, they tried to stop Israel from negotiating peace with Syria. What is wrong with these people!?
The announcement that Israel has entered into comprehensive peace talks with Syria is at odds with the course counseled by the Bush administration, which initially opposed such talks in private conversations with Israelis, according to Israeli and American officials.
In particular, Elliott Abrams, Mr. Bush’s deputy national security adviser, has cautioned against an Israeli-Syria negotiation, according to Israeli and Bush administration officials. Administration officials said they feared that such a negotiation would appear to reward Syria at a time when the United States was seeking to isolate it for its meddling in Lebanon and its backing of Hezbollah.
But a few weeks ago, Israeli officials told their counterparts at the State Department that they planned to begin the negotiations, which are being mediated by Turkey.
"They weren’t asking our permission," one senior administration official said. Another Bush official characterized the Israeli announcement as "a slap in the face."
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So George's own Defense Secretary calls for negotiating with enemies. What is the purpose of the State Department after all right? Robert Gates alone has discredited McCain and Bush's stupid argument to not utilize the State Department and diplomacy.
The article proceeds likewise with these facts:
- Israel has bypassed the neo-cons in George Bush's administration and is negotiating directly with one of its enemies, Syria, and indirectly with, get this, Hamas (via Egypt). One Bush administration neo-con said Israel doing this was "a slap in the face." We wouldn't want peace now would we George? That interferes with Big Oil's plans to return the middle east to the middle ages.
-George himself has negotiated with enemies North Korea and Libya.
-George negotiated with the Sunni insurgents in Iraq.
-While George sits in his sick, insulated little world, Hezbollah effectively took over the Lebanese government.
But none of that matters because George and Dick think we are all just stupid and can't see the inconsistencies, i.e. that George has been "appeasing" North Korea for months, not just talks, actual appeasing.
George Bush is just a liar.