From: Commentary written by Michael J. Totten
If you've never had a chance to read Michael before you really should checkout him out at Michael Totten.com his reporting is insightfull and copelling espcially his unsights on the Iraq and Afghani wars.
A few quotes from the article:
Peace talks, if they ever actually start, aren't going anywhere, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knows it...Syria's Bashar Assad knows it too...Because supposedly right-thinking Westerners are appalled, Israel and Syria will pretend to hold talks while the more seasoned Western diplomats will pretend the talks stand a chance. It's like the old Russian joke about Communism: "We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us."
This is a show for us in the West, but it's for a dwindling number of us in the West...Michael Oren -- now the Israeli ambassador -- said, "Remove 'solution' from your vocabulary and everything will be fine."... The Middle East will stop performing its "peace process" theater as soon as we stop demanding it. And as soon as we stop demanding it, time, resources, and energy can be spent on something that might be slightly productive. The conflict isn't resolvable now, but it's manageable. Even in the Middle East, there is such a thing as damage control...We can't solve this problem right now, but we can try to make it less deadly by isolating and even blockading the combatants instead of cajoling their paymasters into talks they don't take seriously.
Monday, November 23, 2009
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