Maybe it was a 'little to lose' wager.
Guardian:
Barack Obama is close to brokering an Israeli-Palestinian deal that will allow him to announce a resumption of the long-stalled Middle East peace talks before the end of next month, according to US, Israeli, Palestinian and European officials.
Key to bringing Israel on board is a promise by the US to adopt a much tougher line with Iran over its alleged nuclear weapons programme. The US, along with Britain and France, is planning to push the United Nations security council to expand sanctions to include Iran's oil and gas industry, a move that could cripple its economy.
In return, the Israeli government will be expected to agree to a partial freeze on the construction of settlements in the Middle East. In the words of one official close to the negotiations: "The message is: Iran is an existential threat to Israel; settlements are not."
So they are trading a 'much tougher line on Iran' for a partial freeze in settlement construction (new settlements, which I thought were stopped, or adding a bedroom for a new baby?) in order to get the Palestinians who will not give up right of return, or even PROMISE to arrest and or kill Palestinians who want armed struggle (and therefore kill talks before they start) to the table for talks which will founder.
No set of circumstances more aptly describes the worldview of the Obamanoids than this.
- They know they are not going to war by air to stop Iran.
- They know Netanyahu doesn't want to lose the USA, but WILL CHANCE IT if compelled to.
- They know the Palestinians will never give up right of return.
- They persist in non-recognition that another round of disappointments will make things much worse in the region with Iran at the brink ..possibly to an uncontrollable intifada..leading to????
Take this same kind of thinking and apply it to Health Care
Take this same kind of thinking and apply it to the economy, inflation, jobs, and free enterprise
Take this same kind of thinking and apply it to .....overseas deployments about man caused disasters
Take this same kind of thinking and apply it to investigations over CIA actions
Failure, disaster, calumny, frustration.
Town halls are just the beginning.