How Israel threw Barack Obama 'under the bus'

By A Guy Called LULU on Tue, 11/27/2012 - 11:50am |

Just days before Obama embarked on a high profile trip to Thailand, Myanmar and Cambodia, which was intended to symbolise this "pivot", Israel assassinated Ahmed Jabari, the head of Hamas' military wing. The eight-day conflict that followed not only pushed Obama's three-day Asia tour off the US' front pages, it sent ripples of exasperation through the administration's foreign policy establishment.

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"Here we go again," a senior State Department official told me just 24 hours after Israel's attack. "The Middle East is like quicksand: The more you struggle to get loose, the more you get pulled back in."

by A Guy Called LULU on Tue, 11/27/2012 - 11:52am