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The Man Who Never Calls
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| July 24, 2014
| Mark Steyn
Posted on 07/24/2014 5:21:37 PM PDT by NonValueAdded
There was an odd moment during Tuesday's White House press briefing when Ed Henry of Fox News noted that the President was spending three out of five days this week fundraising for his party, and wondered, in effect, whether he still did any work.
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Shuttle diplomacy, of the kind the vainglorious Kerry is attempting, only works if you already have a relationship. You can't start trying to build one after the shooting's started. And in this case the regional leaders' crude self-interest outweighs whatever value they might place on staying on the right side of President Fundraiser and Secretary Windsurfer. General Sisi wants to destroy the Brotherhood in Egypt, to which Hamas has significant ties. The Saudis are Israel's new best friend and see them as their last chance to scuttle Iran's nuclear ambitions. So we are in a bizarre situation where the Arab leaders are more hostile to Hamas than Washington is.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: marksteyn; obamaforeignpolicy
Mark Steyn weighs in, read the full article at his website. Love the poem at the end:
Kerry, as Obama's plenipotentiary, is a paradox - the physical presence of a geopolitical absence: Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today,
I wish, I wish he'd go away...
Thus John Kerry, in Jerusalem and Cairo and beyond.
To: JLS
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posted on
07/24/2014 5:24:32 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
("The Arab Spring is over. Welcome to the Jihadi Spring." Jonah Goldberg)
To: NonValueAdded
You can't start trying to build one after the shooting's started. And in this case the regional leaders' crude self-interest outweighs whatever value they might place on staying on the right side of President Fundraiser and Secretary Windsurfer.ROFLOL!!!!
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posted on
07/24/2014 5:26:33 PM PDT
by
Osage Orange
(I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
To: NonValueAdded
To: NonValueAdded
The only thing Obama is good at is No Good.
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posted on
07/24/2014 5:39:47 PM PDT
by
laplata
(Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
To: NonValueAdded
new tagline, courtesy of the great Mark Steyn
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posted on
07/24/2014 5:49:56 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
("Kerry, as Obama's plenipotentiary, is a paradox - the physical presence of a geopolitical absence")
To: NonValueAdded
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posted on
07/24/2014 5:54:31 PM PDT
by
yldstrk
( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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posted on
07/24/2014 5:57:27 PM PDT
by
SJackson
(government tampers with a freedom so fundamental, one shudders to think what lies ahead. Card Dolan)
To: NonValueAdded
If you haven't gone to the link to read the article, you should at least take a look at the picture of Kerry and an obviously-annoyed Bibi Netanyho.
You rarely see a picture that so accurately exposes a man's innermost feelings!
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posted on
07/24/2014 5:58:39 PM PDT
by
DJ Frisat
(Proudly providing the NSA with provocative textual content since 1995!)
To: DJ Frisat
Indeed, Cheney-esque it was.
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posted on
07/24/2014 6:07:38 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
("Kerry, as Obama's plenipotentiary, is a paradox - the physical presence of a geopolitical absence")
To: NonValueAdded
Good read. Was going to post and saw you already have.
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Mark Steyn ping.
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Thanks for the ing NonValueAdded.
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posted on
07/28/2014 12:19:24 AM PDT
by
JLS
To: NonValueAdded
In the new Middle East, everyone and his uncle has an Obama-Clinton "Reset" button and they've pressed it. But they're not Jews. So nobody minds, and no preening Botoxicated buffoon of an American emissary comes to lecture them.
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posted on
07/28/2014 12:59:39 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
To: NonValueAdded
Love it? Are you not disturbed that he does not credit the author?
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posted on
07/28/2014 11:23:42 PM PDT
by
tdscpa
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