US Skewed Foreign Policy over Rice

A skewed view of US policy in the mid-East was dished up over Rice by the Secretary of State herself in an address to day to an assembly of over 50 Israel political interest groups. Her presentation stood on four fault premises:

1. the alleged pursuit of Iran of nuclear weapons is the tail that wags the dog standing in the way of any progress.
2. Iran should knell hat in hand as a requisite to talk with the US.
3. a naive view of Hamas focusing on their military actions with no integrative view of Hamas as a major political player and no recognition of the errors in Israeli policy causing their actions as portrayed in Pres. Carter's book on Peace not Aparthid.
4. Hawk position blaming all terrorism on the actions of Iran and Syria support of Hamas.

Such a thin assessment by a Secretary of State on the US's most difficult foreign problem explains a lot about why no success has been achieved.