Obama's Mideast focus is consistent with his US Domestic habits

Submitted by Saul Stein (United States), Mar 23, 2010 at 09:37

Over the past year, while US Popular opinion and economic reality are focused on 10+ unemployment and hyper-inflated Federal Deficite spending, the overwhelming number # 1 priority of Obama's agenda has been to promote the Healthcare Reform Act in Congress, which will do nothing to address, atleast in the near future, the other problems chief on most people's minds right now.

In a similar vein, while Iran moves closer and closer to achieving Nuclear Arms capabilities, what has Obama decided is the most important Middle East issue to confront? Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks.

Are these two developments just coincidental examples of Obama's ignorance in the major issues of our day or do they demonstrate the darker side of what Obama hopes to achieve during his presidency?

I fear that there is legitimate reason to believe that Israel's security, and perhaps it's very independence, is not very high on the Obama Agenda. Same goes for US Economic strength.

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