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| Filling the Mideast vacuum |
| 2013-11-21 |
| ...Russia, which many people a few months ago said was clinging onto Syria for dear life because it was its last foothold in the Middle East, is now actively sought after by regional leaders. America’s Middle East policies – its hesitancy, its lack of clear redlines, its apparent weakness – have set its allies scurrying about looking for other partners. Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman could have been speaking for many countries in the region when he said at the Sderot Conference Wednesday that it was unwise to rely on the US as much as Israel has in the past, and that Israel’s foreign policy should not look only in one direction: toward Washington. Indeed, with some major US missteps in the Middle East over the last three years raising questions for many regional actors about Washington’s reliability, many of Israel’s neighbors are looking in other directions. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #2 You left one out: 3. The US has a foreign policy with the objective of upending the status-quo, regardless of whether its aspects are useful or effective. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-11-21 17:01 |
| #1 The fallacy of this article is the assumption the US HAS a foreign policy. Following the thread and trying to connect the dots on what the current ME policy leads to only two conclusions: 1. The US has no coherent foreign policy 2. The US has a coherent foreign policy designed to foment a disastrous nuclear war in the ME so that the ONE can divert attention away from his efforts to convert the US to the CSSR2.0 |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2013-11-21 11:58 |