American Diplomacy on a Ride It will not be Able to Dismount

Submitted by M. Tovey (United States), May 4, 2015 at 16:03

It was imperceptible at first; that the outcome of the 2012 presidential appointment(s) bode ill as the political scheming that led to the unprecedented second term of a failed presidency gone bad settled in and neither parties were in a position to do anything but let the status remain quo. Yet when the 2014 mid terms were through and supposedly the elephants were thought to be on a Tarzan charge against the democrats, the status remained quo, again. Neither Clinton nor Bush gained any traction by the 2014 event results for 2016 event horizon.

Part and parcel, implicitly and explicitly, the insidious aspect of American diplomacy is that it has lost almost all of its creditability, not because of ineptitude as many allege, but for the various issues in which the American future many had hoped for is not the future the current American Administrative Chief Executive is striving for in his altered vision of change. Israel figures largely in that change; but unfortunately for Israel and America, the 'Palestinian' issues figure more largely. Indeed, the situation appears to favor the Iranian paradigm that everyone else is largely afraid will occur - and America is being dragged along.

So, if someone is looking for either the democrat or republican favorite to sort this all out before the 2016 fiasco, it is not going to happen according to the typical political shennanigans. Instead, see who will offer the Middle East its best political solution; only after the smoke of the initial fireworks has cleared; which at this rate, will precede the American conventional wisdom of 2016.

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