Does U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton want confrontation and war in the Middle East, or dialogue, reconciliation and peace? Her pronouncements and policies during her visit to the region last weekend suggest impatient belligerence. Indeed, she seems intent on spreading mayhem, to the puzzlement and anxiety of many of the locals, as I discovered on a visit that coincided with hers. In Riyadh last Saturday, she returned to her now familiar theme of seeking to incite the Gulf Arabs against Iran, a country she insists on demonizing as “a regional and global threat.” At a meeting with foreign ministers of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE and Oman) she proposed erecting a strong missile shield to protect the Arab states of the Gulf. “It is a U.S. priority” she declared “to help the GCC build a regional missile defense architecture” against what she saw as ...
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