tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5876012087863461251.post4902012116933967572..comments2023-10-07T07:59:07.050-04:00Comments on "friday-lunch-club": US official: "Qatar acting like the 'mouse that roared' ... Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5876012087863461251.post-9896049290468607182013-04-01T05:21:59.492-04:002013-04-01T05:21:59.492-04:00Nonetheless, his visit and that of his newly minte...<i>Nonetheless, his visit and that of his newly minted Secretary of State, John Kerry, made little in the way of progress on the most intractable problems in the region. As one State Department official put it, “We have gotten nowhere on the Iranian nuclear issue, Syria continues its slide into ever more violent chaos and little remarked upon but uppermost in the minds of many of us, is the downward economic and political spiral that is occuring in Egypt.</i><br /><br />Funny that, no mention of the <b>MOST INTRACTABLE PROBLEM</b> in the area. I-P! But then they regard it as an opportunity for Israel to continue its illegal colonization. blowbackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11661397569876675986noreply@blogger.com