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TIME: YOUR CRITICS SAY U.S. POLICY IS FAILING IN THE PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES, IRAN, LEBANON, IRAQ. WHAT EVIDENCE IS THERE THAT THE MIDDLE EAST IS BECOMING LESS DANGEROUS AS A RESULT OF THIS ADMINISTRATION'S POLICIES...
...Well, I would not say that it's become less dangerous. I would say that it was never stable. And the sense that things were going along just fine when this Administration began a new set of policies in the Middle East is shortsighted and ahistorical ... A failure in Lebanon? Compared to what? The false stability of Syrian troops occupying the country for 30 years...
...chance, at least, of being a Middle East in which there is a democratic, multiethnic Iraq where people solve their differences by politics, not by repression. It has a chance of having Israel and Palestine live side by side in peace. It has a chance of having a Lebanon that can control its own territory without Syrian forces...
...talked. We have a chargé [d'affaires] in Syria. Colin Powell went to Syria. Bill Burns went to Syria multiple times. It's not a problem that people don't talk to Syria. It's that Syria doesn't appear to listen or respond. In the case of Lebanon, inviting Syria back into Lebanese affairs--as if Syria is some kind of broker of peace when it occupied the country brutally for 30 years--is grotesque...
According to TIME's cover story, "it's not clear that anyone has the ability to get the belligerents to calm down" in the Middle East. Fortunately, that is false. For one, the U.S. could simply tell Israel to stop bombing Lebanon and Gaza or forfeit military aid. Israel would have no choice but to comply. The fact that the Bush Administration has not pursued that avenue to peace indicates that its stated priorities are not its actual goals...