Thursday, November 6, 2008

Obama's Middle East Roadmap

Ben Shapiro offers a troubling look at what we might expect in a Barack Obama administration. I especially like Shapiro's look-ahead to Middle East diplomacy:

Seeking to ease international tensions, Obama met directly with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Ahmadinejad insisted that the Israeli government grant a contiguous state to the Hamas-run Palestinian government, including full control of both its borders and East Jerusalem. Assad insisted that Israel concede the Golan Heights. Obama agreed with the general thrust of the demands, and suggested that the Iranian and Syrian proposals be included in a new "roadmap," to be administered by the United States, France, Russia, China and Britain. Israel has, so far, protested the plan, pointing to the continuing mass terrorism sponsored by Iran and Syria, including the use of crude chemical weaponry.
Don't forget one of Tehran's key preconditions for U.S.-Iranian diplomacy: A complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from the Middle East.

Change we can believe?

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