Condi's getting a little touchy over Syria, methinks
(from the la times...)
clearly in a how-dare-you-challenge-my-approach-to-my-job fit of pique, as she was getting ready to head to the region, she had this to say...
oh, condi... chill... the comment was about YOU talking to the syrians...
so now we know that SOMEBODY on SOME OTHER UNSPECIFIED OCCASION(S) did indeed talk to the syrians about SOME OTHER UNSPECIFIED TOPIC(S)... we can only hope it was recently and about the events currently transpiring...
perhaps you should consider a little PERSONAL DIPLOMACY, preferably not of the john bolton variety...
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Rice is not planning to meet leaders of Syria or Hezbollah on this trip. The Syrians, who have strong influence over Hezbollah, have been contacted by many European and Arab countries and do not need a direct dialogue with the Americans, she said.
Others disagree strongly. Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security advisor to President Carter, said last week at a dinner sponsored by the New America Foundation that if Rice doesn't meet with leaders the administration does not approve of, her trip would amount to "sitting in front of a mirror, talking to herself."
"That's not diplomacy," Brzezinski said.
clearly in a how-dare-you-challenge-my-approach-to-my-job fit of pique, as she was getting ready to head to the region, she had this to say...
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday the United States' poor relationship with Syria is overstated, pointing out that there are existing channels for talking with Syrian leaders about resolving the Mideast crisis when they're ready to talk.
En route to the region, Rice noted that the United States still has a diplomatic mission and State Department officials working in the Syrian capital. That presence, she said, is a "channel for dealing with Syria."
"The problem isn't that people haven't talked to the Syrians. It's that the Syrians haven't acted," she said. "I think this is simply just a kind of false hobby horse that somehow it's because we don't talk to the Syrians.
"It's not as if we don't have diplomatic relations," she said. "We do."
oh, condi... chill... the comment was about YOU talking to the syrians...
so now we know that SOMEBODY on SOME OTHER UNSPECIFIED OCCASION(S) did indeed talk to the syrians about SOME OTHER UNSPECIFIED TOPIC(S)... we can only hope it was recently and about the events currently transpiring...
perhaps you should consider a little PERSONAL DIPLOMACY, preferably not of the john bolton variety...
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posted by profmarcus at
7/24/2006
