Condi’s Flying Dutchman and Air-Guitar Diplomacy

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July 22, 2006

Condi's Flying Dutchman

I wish she wouldn't desecrate Wagner's opera by comparing its hero to our inept Secretary of State.

By MAUREEN DOWD

The more W. and his tough, by-any-means-necessary superbabe have tried to tame the Middle East, the more inflamed the Middle East has become. Now the secretary of state is leaving, reluctantly and belatedly, to do some shuttle diplomacy that entails little diplomacy and no shuttling. It's more like air-guitar diplomacy.

Condi doesn't want to talk to Hezbollah or its sponsors, Syria and Iran . . .

"I could have gotten on a plane and rushed over and started shuttling, and it wouldn't have been clear what I was shuttling to do," she said.

Keep more civilians from being killed? Or at least keep America from being even more despised in the Middle East and around the globe?

Like Davy Jones, the octopus-headed creature who had to keep sailing Flying Dutchman-like without getting to land in the new 'Pirates of the Caribbean,' Condi had a hard time finding an Arab port in which to dock.

The cowboy president bet the ranch on Iraq, and that war has made almost any other American action in the Arab world, and any Pax Americana that might have been created there, impossible. It's fitting that Condi is the Flying Dutchman, since Lebanon represents the shipwreck of our Middle East policy.

full article: http://www.pekingduck.org/archives/003927.php

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1. If she doesn't want the job she should quit.

"I could have gotten on a plane and rushed over and started shuttling, and it wouldn't have been clear what I was shuttling to do," she said.

How about her job?

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2. She has already poisoned the well of diplomacy

By saying that asking for a ceasefire is out of the question. After a statement like that, why the hell should Arab leaders waste a minute of their valuable time on her?

The US has lost any semblance of objectivity or credibility in this war.

Thay've thrown their lot in with the Likudniks.