[jeffers]

InterceptPoint wrote:
Lebanonese Parliament Speaker (Nabih Berrir) has rejected Rice's proposals.

And those proposals were ... ?





A list acceptable to Israel, unacceptable to Lebanon, ghastly from the Syrian, Hezbollian, and Iranian POV, and handsome enough enough to allow Bush and Abdullah to say "we tried" with a straight face.

Within those guidelines, the details themselves are unimportant.

[sageb1]

"A list acceptable to Israel, unacceptable to Lebanon, ghastly from the Syrian, Hezbollian, and Iranian POV, and handsome enough enough to allow Bush and Abdullah to say "we tried" with a straight face."

Precisely.