Tony Snow: “Nobody Has Been More Diplomatically Active Than We Have” On The Middle East Peace...

Here is your diplomacacy at its best Tony Snow you degenerate individual

Think Progress July 21, 2006 at 05:32 PM
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This morning on the Today Show, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow tried to argue that "nobody has been more diplomatically active than we have" in the Middle East, citing all the phone calls White House officials have made in recent days:

Real diplomacy requires more than just phone calls. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger famously went to the region and used "shuttle diplomacy" -- meeting repeatedly with each party -- to negotiate "disengagement agreements between Israel, Syria, and Egypt" following the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Similarly, in 1996, Secretary of State Warren Christopher spent "seven days shuttling between Damascus and Jerusalem" and successfully negotiated a "truce between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas." President Bill Clinton visited Israel in the midst of the 1996 terrorist attacks by Hamas to show U.S. support.
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