Israel-Syria negotations: A "slap in the face" to U.S.?

Thu, 05/22/2008 - 11:10am

That's how one Bush administration official characterized the talks to the New York Times's Helene Cooper. Both Cooper and Robin Wright of the Washington Post have written remarkably similar news analyses today, portraying yesterday's big day for diplomacy in the Middle East as evidence of the U.S.'s diminishing diplomatic influence in the region. 



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