Clinton the Clown

REPORTING FROM A LEAKING DHOW IN THE RED SEA--By the time you, dear reader, read this post, a decades-long effort to achieve peace in the Middle East will once again be struck down--not by assassins bullets or geo-politics but by the grossly incompetent acts of our current Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. To say that Ms. Clinton is a clown would be a stinging insult to those talented individuals who make children laugh at circuses and fairs. Perhaps Ms. Clinton could take clown lessons. It may help her raise her image in the diplomatic world

Let me explain. On October 31, our esteemed Secretary of State stood beside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and agreed with him that he had made "unprecedented" concessions over Israeli settlements in the Occupied Territories. This statement infuriated Arab leaders, who have been expecting the Obama Administration to pressure the Israelis on the settlement issue. What is unprecedented about her comment is that it flies directly in the face her previous statements (and those of Obama on the issue). Her buffoonish actions did create results--the resignation of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, a long-time friend of the West and perhaps the last, best chance for a moderate partner on the Palestinian side to work towards a workable peace. Abbas' replacement will likely be less inclined to sit by idly while the territories take on the aesthetic of Barnum & Bailey.

In the middle of this three-ring circus, with Israel, the Arabs and the United States looking to the ringmaster for guidance, we see rising from the dry ice, an apparition of a clown, done up crudely in the Master's attire and wiggling her butt fatuously at the stunned crowd and dazed Israelis, Arabs and Americans. Bravo, Secretary Clinton.