O Goes Unilateral: Dissing US Allies On Mideast
-- New York Post
-- New York Post
PRESIDENT Obama spent his first week in office dismantling a number of Bush policies.
Demanding reports on a faster Iraq withdrawal or closing Gitmo amount to no more than political sleight of hand. But Obama's actions on the Middle East may substantially alter US strategy.
The first such move is the appointment of ex-Sen. George Mitchell as special Middle East peace envoy, a position he held briefly in 2000.
The move has two notable implications.
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My Comment: Years of developing a multi-national effort on issues such as .... the Middle East peace process, Iran and North Korean nuclear proliferation, and the use of coalition partners in Iraq and Afghanistan .... this policy appears to now be dead in favor of a unilateral approach.
It is not going to work.
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