Monday, November 02, 2009

Hillary's Mideast "charm offensive" amounts to insulting Muslims, pandering to Jews

(AntiWar.com) -- In what the Los Angeles Times described as "a fence-mending trip" to Pakistan, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton managed to tear down more fence posts than she repaired. Abrasive, arrogant, and condescending, she fired a series of verbal RPG volleys that nearly demolished what remained of good relations between the U.S. and its principal ally in the region...

What’s scary is that Hillary considers this to have been a "charm offensive" – and, by her standards, it is. Having inflicted maximum damage on the U.S.-Pakistani relationship, she took her bull-in-a-china-shop routine to Israel, where, standing next to Netanyahu, she declared: "What the prime minister has offered in specifics of a restraint on the policy of settlements … is unprecedented."...Cont'd...LINK

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