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Baby steps. As U.S. President Barack Obama has conceded, the chance for a grand plan when it comes to the federal budget appears to be dead. And last week, he indicated a comprehensive plan for peace in the Middle East appears to be a distant hope as well.
With U.S. President Barack Obama preparing to travel within weeks to the Middle East in hopes of jumpstarting peace talks, former Reagan and Bush administrations figure Elliott Abrams is wondering whether the current administration has learned from the mistakes of its predecessors.
The tortoise paced resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks is overshadowed by the world’s only superpower now faced with the threat of three wars in the same region -- Afghanistan, Iraq and the Persian Gulf -- fed up though its people are with foreign military entanglements.
When President Barack Obama takes the oath of office, he will seek to fulfill his campaign pledge to pull U.S. combat forces out of Iraq. The irony is, this will be an evolution rather than a revolution or U-turn in U.S. policy.
UPI almanac for Sunday, Oct. 8, 2006.
Today is Saturday, Oct. 8, the 281st day of 2005 with 84 to follow.
U.S. envoys Elliott Abrams and David Welch arrived in Ramallah for talks with Palestinian officials on Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank.
The U.S. State Department said Tuesday it was seeking clarifications from Israel on approval for 3,500 new homes in the largest Jewish settlement.
Today is Friday, Oct. 8, the 282nd day of 2004 with 84 to follow.
Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage Friday told Arabic interviewers the United States is "alarmed" by the political situation in the Gaza Strip.
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