A periodic blog on matters political.

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Obama's attempts to broker Middle East peace are doomed to fail�for now. - By Shmuel Rosner - Slate Magazine

This piece includes the brilliantly perceptive line, applicable to so much else. "Obama—and now that we know him better, it is less of a surprise—was reaching for the stars and reaped no more than a handful of air." As is the follow-up: "Yes we can" ran into "no we won't." .... "Not until they have better reasons to do what Obama wants them to do. "

Obama's attempts to broker Middle East peace are doomed to fail -- for now. - By Shmuel Rosner - Slate Magazine

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