Hillary with Suha Arafat
yitbos
Posted on 01/24/2009 10:24:57 PM PST by bruinbirdman
Barack Obama will seek to befriend Syria and enlist the rogue state's help in fighting terrorism, in what US officials see as the first test of his plans to talk to America's enemies.
Diplomats and Democrats in Washington have confirmed that Mr Obama wants to persuade the Syrian leader, Bashar Assad, to cooperate with the West, in the hope that he will loosen his country's close ties to Iran, forcing Tehran to the negotiating table as well.
During his presidential campaign, Mr Obama pledged to speak to states like Iran and Cuba without imposing preconditions as the Bush administration did on any contacts.
But in conversations with allies since his election, Mr Obama has made clear that he believes the key to improving the political situation in the Middle East is to peel Syria away from its longstanding alliance with Iran, rather than to immediately start negotiations with Tehran over its nuclear weapons programme.
US officials believe it will be more palatable for American voters for Mr Obama to launch his rogue nation outreach effort with Damascus rather than Iran and that dealing with the mullahs in Tehran would be much easier if they could no longer rely on knee-jerk support from Syria.
Both countries are accused of arming and sponsoring the terrorists groups Hamas and Hezbollah, funneling extremists and weapons into Iraq and attempting to purchase and develop nuclear technology. A Syrian nuclear plant was destroyed in an Israeli air attack last year.
One source, who has discussed foreign policy directly with Mr Obama in the last two weeks, has revealed that the president "is spending a lot of time thinking about Syria and how to improve relations".
During the election campaign, Mr Obama expressed support for tentative peace talks between Israel and Syria, which are still technically at
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Does President Soetoro understand your not supposed to negotiate with terrorists?
29 years after the incredible failure of the Carter administration, 0-bama is ready to bring failure back in style. Yay.
Obama is going to break one cardinal rule after another, until it blows up in OUR face. Then he’ll get voted out of office and spend the next fifty years telling our future Presidents what they are doing wrong. Carter on steroids...
God in His infinite wisdom will make sure I don’t have to stick around and watch all of it. Praises to Him indeed...
Obama will be the last one to know what a blithering idiot buffoon he really is.
Obama is going to break one cardinal rule after another, until it blows up in OUR face. Then he’ll get voted out of office and spend the next fifty years telling our future Presidents what they are doing wrong. Carter on steroids...
God in His infinite wisdom will make sure I don’t have to stick around and watch all of it. Praises to Him indeed...
Obama will be the last one to know what a blithering idiot buffoon he really is.
Obama is going to break one cardinal rule after another, until it blows up in OUR face. Then he’ll get voted out of office and spend the next fifty years telling our future Presidents what they are doing wrong. Carter on steroids...
God in His infinite wisdom will make sure I don’t have to stick around and watch all of it. Praises to Him indeed...
Obama will be the last one to know what a blithering idiot buffoon he really is.
I believe Obama’s real estate deal buddy Antoin Rezco- cuurently serving time - is Syrian born and backed by the convicted Iraqi billionaire Nadhim Auchi aka Acuchi, so it looks like Obama already knows how to pay-to-play with Syria as well as the other guy in the mix, Illinois Governor Blagojevich.
Of course, Pelosi’s already piddled away our tax dollars on trips to Syria ahead of Obama.
One more U.S. President thinking he can get Syria to play ball and end up being sent home in his jock strap.
Even Reagan let himself be fleeced by Syria.
I’m quite certain if Obama brings Nancy Pelosi along on the trip this time, in full burqua instead of a headscarf,....our relations will improve.
http://www.booklyn.org/exhibition/Burqua.jpg
Lot of white boys in that picture.
Hillary with Suha Arafat
yitbos
The present Assad is, if anything, even more duplicitous than his old man, and that’s saying something. I have little doubt that he can pull a nice long con job on O.
The Obammunist will be the first to cut a lasting deal with both Baby Assad and Baby Il. All three have the same goal.
yitbos
Send a cruise missile through his tent. It seemed to work with Khaddafi.
Hussein Obama likes Bashar al-Asad's politics, in particular the secret police.
yitbos
It is collusion not negotiation
It’s frustrating when FREEPERS already know how much of a failure both President Obama and the leftist Congress are going to be, but we really can’t do anything about it, except work towards a better future.
Yup, that will "force Tehran to the negotiating table". Can he be more naive?
Wanna make a bet he promises them 47 virgins here on earth.
If they do all this, their welcome. But it's apparent that they won't do it.
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