By Stan Goodenough
Feb 27, 2008
US President George W. Bush might be giving his "personal" best effort to seeing a peace deal reached between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs this year, but he might as well save himself the trouble.
As if cautious Israeli and intransigent "Palestinian" officials aren’t giving him enough headaches, individuals in his own administration are not really all that keen to see this deal come about.
At least, this was the belief expressed by Syrian ambassador to the United States Imad Moustapha Monday, according to the Associated Press.
Moustapha, who derided as nothing more than a public relations exercise the US-convened peace conference in Annapolis last November, said powerful elements in the Bush administration see chaos as constructive in the Middle East.
He apparently failed to elaborate on, or substantiate, his remarks.