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In reply to the discussion: 'Frequently Told Lies' about Glenn Greenwald, by Glenn Greenwald. [View all]blm
(114,834 posts)mean you can go all apeshit attacking people who are FAR, FAR, FAR, FAR more honorable and unselfish in their service.
Really....are you drinking or something?
Edwards helped WRITE the IWR and never denounced the invasion. YOU saw him as a hero. Now you have the gall to attack Kerry for standing with the weapon inspectors and against the invasion?
Geez - your bitterness is spilling over.
And, apparently you can't read, either.
John Kerry, The Tenacious Diplomat
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/david-ignatius-john-kerrys-middle-east-work-bears-fruit/2013/07/24/cd67f60a-f3e7-11e2-aa2e-4088616498b4_story.html
Two qualities rarely associated with modern secretaries of state are patience and keeping your mouth shut in public. But in his first six months, John Kerry has demonstrated both and his stubborn silence appears to have brought him to the door of renewed Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. . .There has been a little of Captain Ahab in Kerrys quest. He has made six trips to the Middle East, shuttling back and forth trying to coax concessions on what President Obama in 2010 called as intractable a problem as you get. Perhaps because of Obamas frustrations, White House officials concede that Kerry has been operating mostly on his own.
Kerry has persisted, to growing yawns and catcalls from Washington observers. Jeffrey Goldberg, a well-informed columnist for Bloomberg News and the Atlantic, said Kerry was on a fools errand. The buzz before Fridays announcement was that Kerry had botched his first six months by obsessively pursuing the great white whale of the peace process and ignoring more urgent problems such as Egypt and Syria.. .
Kerry did two smart things to grease the process. He persuaded the Arab League to amend its 2002 peace initiative to drop the old demand for a return to the 1967 lines and instead allow border swaps. And the Arab League renewed its promise of eventual recognition of Israel. Kerry also encouraged Israeli and Arab entrepreneurs to craft a showy $4 billion plan that hints at the prosperity that could come with peace and Palestinian statehood.
To manage the detailed negotiations, Kerry will turn to his longtime aide Frank Lowenstein, perhaps joined by Martin Indyk, a highly regarded former U.S. ambassador to Israel. In a 2012 book Indyk co-authored, he summed up the problem facing negotiators: Nowhere in Obamas foreign policy has the gap been wider between promise and delivery than in the Middle East. Kerry has been plugging along these past six months, and he seems to have gotten somewhere. People rarely make money gambling on Middle East peace, but once again, its time to place your bets.
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