Friday, May 30, 2008

US diplomatic sway in the Arab world is on the wane

David Ignatius in the Daily Star, here
"....Recognizing that US efforts to check the radical militia had failed, the Lebanese did the pragmatic thing - they sued for peace under the formula the Bush administration has been resisting for more than a year........And in the long run, it's surely to America's advantage if regional powers can create a stable security architecture - even if it isn't precisely the one we would have designed for them. We've tried imposing our own solutions, and frankly that hasn't worked very well"

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