Posted on 02/21/2008 9:59:19 PM PST by Tigen
The "inner circle" of Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama is developing a foreign policy that includes high-level diplomatic talks with Syria and Iran but does not include pressuring Israel to negotiate with Hamas, the New York Sun reported. Sen. Obama has won significant victories over Sen. Hillary Clinton in primaries. He has been trying to overcome an e-mail campaign charging that he will not back Israel if elected president.
The inner circle includes Zbigniew Brzezinski, a former national security adviser to President Carter and who led a delegation in the Middle East that met with Syrian President Bashar Assad. Former Israeli ambassador to America, Daniel Ayalon, told the Sun, "What worries me [is that] I have looked into his [Obama's] position papers and all of that. He describes the ayatollah regime as a Hitler-like regime. I think he is very right to see it as a Hitler-like regime. If he sees it this way, why would he negotiate with a Hitler type regime?"
Unlike every previous major candidate since 1980, he has not promised to move the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. American President George W. Bush, similar to his predecessors, has reneged on the promise. The move to Jerualem is mandated by a Congressional law, which includes a waiver which President Bush has used to claim that security considerations prevent him from executing the law.
Does anyone know if he mentioned what he would do with the Kosovo situation? Or is he maybe waiting to see what the popular opinion would be before he makes a statement.
He consistently leaves out his stepfather when he speaks of his upbringing. Consistantly says that his Dad left when he was two (which is true) and that his Mom and Gradparents then raised him. No mention of his stepfather or the years in Indonesia.
This guy, IMHO, is very, very dangerous.
I agree!
Thanks for the link to that and your commentary, Phil.....I’ll be reading that (soon).
Good graphics Phil.
Sure he does, he’s one of them. Osama Obama as Ted knicknamed him.
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