Monday, June 23, 2008

Do-it-yourself Mideast peace?

Israel just signed a cease-fire with Hamas and is negotiating with Syria. It's also negotiating with Hezbollah seeking the return of the two soldiers whose capture set off the ill-advised (on Israel's part) 2006 war with Hezbollah. What's going on. This Register editorial suggests that it has a great deal to do with the weakened position the U.S. occupies in the Middle East thanks to the Iraq war. So the parties are doing their own negotiating. Any truce between Israel and a group still devoted to its destruction is fragile, but it's something. Maybe if the U.S. resists the impulse to guide and micromanage things will get even better.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is so true and so scary. The US is an OBSTICAL to peace.

We literly have insane people in charge of US mideast policy.

I mean, these people bash carter as an anti-semite when he has given them the more peace than anyone else.

Now they are pushing for sanctions against Iran against the economic interest of everyone including the US.

Anonymous said...

Alan, this is too much:

An Indian company will take over copy editing duties for some stories published in The Orange County Register and will handle page layout for a community newspaper at the company that owns the Pulitzer Prize-winning daily, the newspaper confirmed Tuesday.

Orange County Register Communications Inc. will begin a one-month trial with Mindworks Global Media at the end of June, said John Fabris, a deputy editor at the Register.


I don't see how this is going to help the newspaper.