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...America’s extensive involvement in the Vietnam War, including the controversial decision to bomb then-neutral Cambodia and Laos, the American people have learned the hard way that there is often a massive credibility gap between what Washington tells them and the realities on the ground. The Bush administration’s refusal to be honest about what happened at Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib not only hurt its credibility at home but also inspired much hatred, indignity, and anti-Americanism abroad. If the Obama administration follows in its footsteps, it will only find itself complicit...
...bumbler in 2009. In her initial press conference on what the CIA told her, she fumbled through her notes, departed the podium, returned to the podium, departed again and accused the CIA of lying to her - a charge she had clarified the next day by blaming the Bush Administration. To call it a disastrous public performance would be polite. (See an interactive guide to the first 100 days...
...same thing has happened with the truth commission that Pelosi so ardently wants, in order to investigate the Bush Administration's policies on torture. Obama has long resisted looking back, in part for what most people agree are shrewd political reasons. Pelosi, however, leaped at the Obama Administration's recent release of the Bush Administration's torture memos to renew her call for the commission. Republicans accused her of complacency with the policies at the time - turns out she was briefed on the extreme interrogation methods in September 2002 - and we all found ourselves looking back, combing through the records...
Rather than finessing what Bush and Clinton started, Obama may be forced to change the game, working with his partners in the Quartet established during the Bush era (including the E.U., the U.N. and Russia) and with the Arab League to forge an international consensus on the parameters for a fair solution to the conflict. That would require outlining the borders between two states (the formula for doing so, based on the 1967 borders, is already enshrined in existing documents such as the "Roadmap"), how to share Jerusalem, the fate of West Bank settlements and of Palestinian refugee families...
...seriously by putting a halt to the construction of Jewish settlements in the Palestinian territories, lifting the blockade on Gaza and accepting the idea of a Palestinian state next door. Obama's no-nonsense words were a far cry from the easy ride that Israeli Premiers got from the Bush Administration. As columnist Ben Caspit wrote in Israeli daily Ma'ariv, "There wasn't a single blister that Obama didn't step on, and it didn't seem to bother him." (See pictures of life under Hamas in Gaza...