It takes time to discuss the matter with all of your 300 advisers.
Lots of time.
Get used to it.
Posted on 01/07/2009 1:02:21 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
If Europe wants to phone America on the Gaza crisis, who does it call? Not George Bush, who has two weeks left in the White House. And not Barack Obama, who has been mute on Israel’s military action, although the world looked to him immediately the conflict filled the screens. “Nobody at home in Washington”, ran one US headline on the turmoil.
“President-elect Obama is closely monitoring global events, including the situation in Gaza, but there is one president at a time,” said Brooke Anderson, his chief national security spokeswoman. This is disingenuous. Even if silence is meant only as evasion, it will never be taken as neutral by the region, where officials pore over every phrase – or the absence of them – for clues to Mr Obama’s policy. It is astonishing, in a campaign that turned on foreign policy, how much he managed not to say on the subject.
He has a strong bias towards diplomacy rather than fighting; we know that much from a year of Obama-the-cool on the campaign trail. But that preference is not a substitute for policy. Israel’s action will force him to do what he has worked so hard to avoid so far: saying how, or even if, he intends to help to break the deadlock.
Obama’s few, overanalysed sentences on the Israeli-Palestinian morass are generally supportive of Israel’s general positions, although with a more reserved tone than President Bush has used. In July he said: “In terms of negotiations with Hamas, it is very hard to negotiate with a group that is not representative of a nation-state, does not recognise your right to exist, has consistently used terror as a weapon and is deeply influenced by other countries.”
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Present!
Obama will be the first Presentdent.
The question is, who will they call AFTER Obama takes office?
Why should the Euros call anybody? Israel is doing fine all by itself...........
Hold your breath world! Maybe then the rest of us can breath a whole lot easier when you are gone.
Title assumes facts not in evidence.
“speak his mind”..
Hmmmph! Can’t imagine there being much to speak of....
Bambi seemed VERY able to talk about our actions in IRAQ, and undermine what we are doing.....but, he can’t say anything about something we are not directly involved in......yeah....right.
I agree.
It takes time to discuss the matter with all of your 300 advisers.
Lots of time.
Get used to it.
“The question is, who will they call AFTER Obama takes office?”
With all the Clintonistas now taking their seats in the “Bambi” cabinet?
How about the real President, Hillary. You know that title, “Secretary of State?” I think it means Chief of State (U.S.)
Comrade Zero is truly Bambi. He looks like a deer caught in the headlights.
The world really does think of him as a messiah...
(Shakes head...)
I see the J-schools in England draw from the same pool as their counterparts in the US.
And when he does, it will amount to one word:
DDDDUUUUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.......
If he speaks his mind we wouldn’t hear anything
NO I did not read the article.
I’m not waiting at all. I hope I never hear him speak his mind.
Why do you think I call him 'zero' ??
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