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To: Condo who wrote (249711)	5/13/2008 3:27:08 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 793917

After puzzling over that portion of the linked interview several times, I'm pretty sure the "constant sore" Obama is referring to is the ongoing failure to reach a two-state solution between Israel and the a Palestinian state. I would agree that's what he means, though the wording was infelicitous. However, that in turn means that he has bought into the standard leftist argument that failure to solve the Israeli/Pal conflict is the lynchpin upon which all Mideast troubles turn, and must be solved first. This is what the Arabs tell their friends in the State Department day in, day out. Then they go home and give more money to Hamas or the PLO to make sure the conflict stays intractable. Its use as a shield for their regimes can hardly be overestimated. That there is a battle for hegemony between the Iran-Syria axis and the US-led allies seems to be difficult for leftists to notice. Maybe because they don't know who they want to win. I have noticed that most of Obama's foreign policy positions seems to be standard-issue leftist boilerplate. I don't even get the sense that he really owns his positions.

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