August 09, 2006
Condi's Disaster?What happens to otherwise smart people when they get to the State Department?
American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is on the brink of handing President George W. Bush the worst diplomatic disaster of his presidency. She is poised to agree to UN resolutions that will tie the hands of both Israel and the United States in the war on terrorism and, in particular, inhibit future action on its number one state sponsor - Iran.I hope this analysis is wrong, but you can never tell what the careerists at State are capable of.The catastrophe is the brainchild of Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who has effectively turned the United Nations into the political wing of Hizbullah. Rice and Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns are working furiously to satisfy a timetable dictated by Annan, not by the interests of the United States...
the UN - which to this day cannot define terrorism - did not come to the aid of a UN member under fire from one of the world's leading terrorist organizations. It came to the aid of the terrorist by attempting to prevent the member state from exercising its right to hit back...
But in the face of the UN's obvious predilection to subvert Israel's well-being and American foreign policy interests, to whom has Secretary Rice turned to save the day? The United Nations!
THE RESULT has been as predictable as it has been disastrous. The UN's verbal assault on Israel is coupled with a three-pronged political agenda. The UN seeks to: (1) protect Hizbullah from further Israeli attacks, (2) produce a political win for Hizbullah by giving them the territorial prize of the Shaba Farms, and (3) increase UN presence, oversight and control of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Posted by Jonathan R. on August 9, 2006 09:54 AM
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If decisions like this are made, they are made by the PRESIDENT, who INSTRUCTS the SoS to implement them.
And I have faith that GWB and Condi will do the right thing with the Middle East, because I like what they have done so far.
We don't yet know what is "really" going on with Condi and the U.N. The "analysis" above is more speculation than reporting.
I also would go so far as to say that, if something they do at first seems "wrong," I will cut them some slack and give them the benefit of the doubt (to some extent). I am not privy to all the information they have. I don't have the resources they have to put together a long-term comprehensive study on anything. And this much I can say for certain: the more the U.N. is involved, the more we discredit the U.N.
Throughout history, success has often come after "experts" said the path was wrong, because the "experts" weren't capable of seeing the long term impact of a decision. History now looks back on Reagan as a success, even when many traditional Republicans were worried about his actions regarding the U.S.S.R. and the cold war.
I believe GWB and Condi are cut of the same cloth as Ronald Wilson Reagan. I put my faith in them to lead us, and our allies, in the greater Global War on Terror. Thirty years from now, people will look back on the genius of GWB... unless we bail on him now and allow the left to muck up everything.
Posted by: Gullyborg ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.gopbloggers.org/nav-commenters.gif)
at August 9, 2006 02:27 PM
Hopefully the French double-cross will torpedo this farce.
Posted by: BD at August 9, 2006 08:16 PM
I agree with Gullyborg. I think perhaps, President Bush and Secretary of State Rice are merely going through the expected diplomatic motions at the UN to placate the "international community" in an effort to buy Israel more time to get the job of demolishing Hezbollah done. At least I hope so.
Posted by: Freedom1 at August 9, 2006 09:17 PM
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