Rice visits Mideast amid doubts about U.S. commitment

Source: Reuters

Rice visits Mideast amid doubts about U.S. commitment

By Arshad Mohammed
31 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice begins
a new round of talks in the Middle East on Friday amid deep skepticism
about whether the United States is serious about promoting peace.

Despite making her third trip to the region this year, with stops in Egypt,
Israel, the West Bank and Jordan, Rice faces doubts that Washington is
really committed to pushing peace between Israel and the Palestinians
or the broader Arab world.

Analysts also said circumstances are far from conducive to a revived
peace process given divisions among the Palestinians and the political
weakness of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, leaving both sides
ill-equipped to negotiate.

"I think they are serious about putting more effort in. I think they are
not serious about putting in the kind of effort and presidential
involvement that a final settlement will require," said Jonathan Alterman
of the CSIS think tank.

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cause of course blue eyes and blond hair are ineffective diplomats

there`s nothing she can offer because as we know now cheney is calling the shots in the state dept. i guess she has nothing else to do.