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...bragged about the performance of the Palestine stock exchange. At the center of the crowd-trim, smiling and looking a lot more relaxed than he did a year ago, when he resigned as Britain's Prime Minister after 10 years at the post-was Tony Blair, the special envoy to the Middle East of the U.S.-Russia-European Union-U.N. "Quartet" of powers...
...thought that was a fair judgment, and having spent time with him in the past few weeks, I'm more persuaded than ever that it's wrong. Blair is not without faults. In the Middle East, where he has so far achieved little concrete success as the Quartet's envoy, it is uncomfortably common to hear the claim that he spreads himself too thin. He can, no question, come across as a bit cocksure in the rightness of his judgments. But he swims in deep waters. He is convinced, he told me, that in the rich world, "without spiritual values...
...China is serious then it is good, but if it wants to show the world that "we are talking" then there is no use in meeting. TENZIN TAKLA, Dalai Lama spokesman, after the Chinese government reversed course and announced that it would meet an envoy of the Tibetan spiritual leader...
...military historian, do you see a clear path for a resolution to the Iraq occupation? -Halston Howard Torrance, Calif.Well, I said in December 2003, "We've gone off a cliff." I think [special envoy to Iraq L. Paul] Bremer's decisions in June of 2003 were an absolute, total strategic fiasco. When political leaders decide they can violate all the rules of war, they get beat...
Diplomats are trained to stay in line. They promote national policy, but they never make it. Christopher Hill, the U.S.'s head envoy to North Korea, is that rare diplomat who did things differently, stepping out ahead of his talking points and managing to bring his bosses along with him. As a result, he is also helping to bring the most dangerous nation in Asia back into the global embrace...