With the situation in the Middle East deteriorating by the day and the current suspicion that Israel is about to invade Lebanon - as if that country and its people havn't been battered enough - what has been singularly absent has been any effort by the US and its allies to put a stop to Israeli aggression and breaches of the Hague and Geneva Conventions. As others have said the US and the UK have given the Israelis the "green light" to go ahead with its actions at least for a while.
Therefore to read this is startling:
"This morning on the Today Show, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow argued that “nobody has been more diplomatically active than we have” in the Middle East, citing all the phone calls White House officials have made in recent days".
Yet another part of the delusion which infects the White House that it has been attempting do bring a halt to the carnage?
As Think Progress rightly points out diplomacy takes more than phone calls. Read the complete piece here.
Therefore to read this is startling:
"This morning on the Today Show, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow argued that “nobody has been more diplomatically active than we have” in the Middle East, citing all the phone calls White House officials have made in recent days".
Yet another part of the delusion which infects the White House that it has been attempting do bring a halt to the carnage?
As Think Progress rightly points out diplomacy takes more than phone calls. Read the complete piece here.
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