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Okay, since MOH is grading his own predictive powers, I thought I'd advertise something I said was likely coming ... (okay, I didn't actually predict anything, it's just a segue)
http://tinyurl.com/68ajol
Tomorrow's NYT reports on peace talks between Israel and Syria, the first in 8 years, mediated by Turkey.
The talks in Turkey were coordinated with the United States, according to a senior Israeli official who spoke on condition of anonymity, though the talks come less than a week after President Bush, speaking to the Israeli Parliament, created a stir by criticizing those who would negotiate with “terrorists and radicals.”
No mention of the further fact that the US recently tried to scuttle the talks by holding a briefing about the Sept Israeli bombing of a suspected Syrian nuclear facility, ignoring Israel's explicit request that they not, but I guess quoting the President's speech kind of makes the point.
Maybe this is what Thomas Fatheadman means by a 'geopolitical deficit' (quoting “Superclass” author David Rothkopf of Carnegie) in his new mind-numbing column, which contains the following gems:
http://tinyurl.com/4wuf6y
There has been much debate in this campaign about which of our enemies the next U.S. president should deign to talk to. The real story, the next president may discover, though, is how few countries are waiting around for us to call.
More and more, I am convinced that the big foreign policy failure that will be pinned on this administration is not the failure to make Iraq work, as devastating as that has been.
... because you know, that's what the debate has been all about. Just ask O'Hanlon and his posse.
