Bush, April 2007: “Nancy Pelosi is a traitor because Bashar Assad is a state sponsor of terror.” Bush, November 2007: “Mr. Assad, meet Condoleezza Rice”
Posted By JM Bell on November 27, 2007
I love the double standard, and the former Governor of Texas always delivers on time.
Today there is another meeting in the ongoing Middle East peace talks. Ongong, you ask? Yeah, ongoing, with a nearly seven year recess because the former Governor of Texas is a bonehead. This isn’t about the bonehead, though, it’s about the bonehead’s double standard.
From Bret Stephens in The Wall Street Journal we get a shined light on the bullsh*t duality of the Bush Doctrine:
Remember Nancy Pelosi’s spring break in Damascus? Condoleezza Rice apparently does not. When the House Speaker paid Syrian strongman Bashar Assad a call back in April, President Bush denounced her for sending “mixed signals” that “lead the Assad government to believe they are part of the mainstream of the international community, when in fact they are a state sponsor of terror.” Today, said sponsor of terror will take its place at the table Ms. Rice has set for the Middle Eastern conference at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.
Wow. Well, that made my point, but, Stephens goes on to ask even more, important questions:
Only at Foggy Bottom would Syria’s last-minute decision to go to Annapolis be considered a diplomatic triumph. The meeting is supposed to inaugurate the resumption of high-level negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians, with a view toward finalizing a deal on Palestinian statehood before the administration leaves office. On a deeper plane of geopolitical subtlety, it is supposed to bring Israel and the Arab world together in tacit alliance against Iran.
This raises three significant questions. First, how does Syria’s presence at Annapolis affect those goals? Next, how does Syria’s presence affect U.S. policy toward Syria? And what effect, if any, will all this have on Syria’s behavior in the region?
Please take a moment to READ THE REST of this. I think you’ll find it enlightening
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