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On Not Talking With Syria
May 21, 2008 | Posted by Abu Muqawama - 4:42am | 11 Comments
Oh man. Poor Condoleezza Rice. Her honest-to-God worst fear was that our hardline stance on Syria was going to leave us looking stupid because, in the end, we would be the only ones not talking with Syria. She warned the Israelis time and time again not to talk with the Syrian regime. And yet, as the BBC reports today:
Update: David Hearst has an invaluable "explainer" in the Guardian.
Israel says it is holding indirect talks with Syria to reach a comprehensive peace agreement.
A statement by the Israeli prime minister's office said both sides were talking "in good faith and openly".
This has happened before, of course. The U.S. ended up being the last people to meet with the PLO, too, and was embarrassed to discover that Israel -- on whose behalf we weren't meeting with the PLO -- was secretly meeting with, ahem, the PLO. Abu Muqawama would hate to be Tzipi Livni when she gets that call from Condi. ("You %$#@ed us! Again!") And what must the president be thinking? It was just last week that he stood in the Knesset and made that bold speech about not dealing with radicals or some such. How many members of the audience were, at that very moment, engaged in talks with the Asad regime as they stood and applauded the president's words?
Update: David Hearst has an invaluable "explainer" in the Guardian.
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