Word: summiteer
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...most Iraqis, the Amman summit was not a letdown - only because they had no great expectations of it to begin with. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and President Bush offered very little in the way of new ideas and workable solutions, only familiar rhetoric and vague promises...
...short, the Amman summit did little to persuade Iraqis that things are about to get better anytime soon. But if there was a silver lining in the gloom - and you had to strain your eyes to find it - it was in President Bush's unambiguous thumbs-down to the idea of separating Iraq into three ethnic or sectarian enclaves. Partition may be an intriguing parlor game for foreign-policy wonks in Washington, but like most theoretical plans for Iraq, it was never likely to survive direct contact with ground realities. Save a few fringe figures and Al-Qaeda in Iraq...
...only surprise to emerge from the summit was the news that it was al-Maliki who decided not to attend a Wednesday dinner with Bush and King Abdullah. Analysts say the Iraqi Prime Minister, a Shi'ite, doesn't trust Jordan's Sunni monarch and did not want to discuss sensitive issues with Bush in Abdullah's presence. Home to hundreds of thousands of Iraqi immigrants, including many of al-Maliki's political enemies, Jordan is unlikely to forget this snub in a hurry...
...postponement of the first session of a high-stakes summit between President Bush and Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki Wednesday night in Jordan may indeed have been - as officials on both sides took pains to stress - simply a matter of logistics. And the two men appeared relaxed after their meeting, stressing common themes such as a rejection of the idea of partitioning Iraq, and stressing the need for Iraqi forces to take on more of the security burden. Still, reports ahead of the summit on the outlook that each man would bring to the table suggests a substantial...
...meeting was touted as a crisis summit designed to set a new course for tackling Iraq's mounting violence, civil war or whatever one chooses to call it; the salient point is that Iraq has spun so dangerously out of control that existing policies appear to offer no way out of the mayhem. The pre-meeting atmosphere was clouded by the publication, in the New York Times, of a memo from National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley that questions Maliki's commitment and capability to take the steps the U.S. deems necessary to turn things around. The document sets...