Bush and the Middle East: A Farce In Triple Time


A non-starter.


It’s a time for empty suits and bloated egos

When you see the poseurs standing around waiting to grovel before the man/boy who was selected to run this country into the ground, I might add, and listen to him talk about finding a solution between Israel and Palestine, it is hard not to gag.

Does he and his devoted cadre of sycophants expect us, the citizenry, to swallow the idea that a president—who never ventured to Palestine or Israel, a man who is detached from the pyrotechnics of this embattled land—with a simple regal gesture is going to construct a solution in one two day trip to Israel? That with some sleight of hand, he is going to accomplish what no other president has been able to accomplish for thirty years despite their attention, concentration and dedication to that purpose?

What kind of smoke is he blowing?

This whole proposition might be funny if, indeed, it wasn’t so tragic!

The fact is that there can be no settlement with the Palestinian nation unless it includes the Gaza strip which is now controlled by Hamas, the party in power that is supported by Iran.

If anything, the president’s delusions do little more than camouflage the true nature of the problem in order to provide some sort of legacy to a man who has succeeded at nothing except bankrupting his country in a host of harebrained schemes that has virtually dismantled the Middle Class and destroyed our standing in the world.

Am I being too harsh?

I think you’ll agree; I’ve understated the case.

In truth, we have done nothing in seven years to ameliorate the challenges facing this part of the world and the blame must be placed at the feet of the most ill-suited occupant of the State Department in memory and a president who is more occupied with photo ops than finding solutions to both domestic and international problems.

It is time we got real.

Having an incompetent, ill prepared staff that prides itself on its lack of preparedness, does no one any good.

And the republicans seem the last ones to catch on.

Les Aaron
The Committee for Positive Change
hubmaster@aol.com
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