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The Middle East may be in a mess, but the Obama Administration's new envoy, George Mitchell, has several things going for him. He arrived in a hurry after the Inauguration, he knows the region from his past days as a fact-finder, and perhaps most importantly, as he told...
That willingness to listen is further evidence of President Barack Obama's pledge to bring a new even-handedness in America's foreign policy, which is symbolized by his choice of Mitchell, a former Senate majority leader and an Arab American who some Israelis view as too evenhanded. Winding up...
The President visited the State Department on his second full day in office to send a message: diplomacy will now take precedence over military force in U.S. foreign policy - and his Administration's will be a diplomacy of constant, persistent attention to the world's problem areas rather than slapdash...
The Mitchell appointment will probably prove controversial among Israel's neoconservative American supporters - and, quite possibly, with Israel's government, especially if the Likud Party wins the Feb. 10 elections. To Likudniks, the very act of naming an envoy is suspicious: Mitchell is likely to do something the Bush Administration...
"It is not something we're going to be able to do overnight," Barack Obama said as he sent his Middle East envoy, George Mitchell, off to the region. Or was it when he was talking about closing Guantánamo? Or, perhaps, when he was discussing the impact of...