Rice's Tough Week In The Middle East: "US Policy...Has Come To A Dead End"

Rice's Tough Week In The Middle East: "US Policy...Has Come To A Dead End"

Rice's Tour of Mideast Yields Little Progress on Key Issues

By Robin Wright
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, October 8, 2006; Page A29

LONDON, Oct. 7 -- It was a tough week for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in the Middle East. On four issues pivotal to the future of the world's most volatile region, U.S. diplomatic efforts made no visible progress or came up against unexpected resistance during her five-day tour, according to Arab and Israeli officials and analysts.

On Iraq, Arab-Israeli peace, democracy promotion and fostering a so-called moderate bloc of Arab states to stand together against militancy, Rice pressed at each of six stops for new energy or more decisive action. Many of the Arab leaders she met share U.S. fears about the region's future, but there is a growing divide even with Washington's closest allies over what needs to be done, at what pace, in what order and by whom, according to Arab officials interviewed at each stop.

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Solve et Coagula

It would be interesting to see you post in anybody else's thread, or even to follow up on replies to your own threads.

While i agree with the sentiments expressed in a lot of the links you provide, links are not enough for genuine discussion or debate.

Stop trolling. It's annoying.

I smell bias, if a right winger were doing this they wouldn't get a "10 suspension", they would get maybe 1 warning and then if it continued a banning. The guidelines are very clear as to what is unacceptable on the forums and what the consequences are for breaking those guidelines.

Don't mean to preach, but you're getting on my fucking nerves, guy...

And another thing:

I don't know what your first language is, but it's difficult to read an article when it's littered with these: Ó.