Mittens: 'Hope is not a strategy in the Middle East.'

[Are_grits_groceries]

Well, you spell out your strategy then Mittens. Are you going to tie the leaders to a tank until they agree with you?
You have absolutely no clue about that area. Even your remarks now can roil some people. Everything and everybody is interconnected. If you pull on one method, you have no idea what else will move.
If given half a chance, you would blunder around and piss off everybody. That might not be all bad because then there would be a common enemy.
Hope may not be a strategy, but it better be part of the process. If the parties have no hope, then you will never have peace.

[tblue]

1. But arrogant ignorance is?

Dear God, please don't stick us with this self-important opportunist.

[mercuryblues]

2. he already told us his stragedy

[spelling pun intended]

So what you do is, you say, you move things along the best way you can. You hope for some degree of stability, but you recognize that this is going to remain an unsolved problem....and we kick the ball down the field and hope that ultimately, somehow, something will happen and resolve it.

[HopeHoops]

3. Apparently bombing the crap out of it is just fine for rMoney.

[Skidmore]

4. You know, he has 5 sons who should be first in line if he will demand aggression

as a strategy. Otherwise, we make sure his ass doesn't get near that seat in the Oval Office.

[HopeHoops]

6. They'd have to make an emergency trip to France to be door-to-door salesmen.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. "Occupation by the Greatest World Power, the USA, is a strategy."