The New York Times: Reports that former Senator and Obama's Middle East Envoy George Mitchell has thrown in the towel. This blog has a lot of time for Senator Mitchell, he helped bring peace to Northern Ireland but the Middle East was a big ask by President Obama. In Northern Ireland the Parties had reached the end of the battle, they wanted peace, in the Middle East they have been fighting each other since the dawn of time, and they are not going to give up any time soon. Also Middle East politics plays in to internal US politics, the Israeli Lobby is one of the most powerful pressure groups in the US, also there a lot of Jewish voters in Florida, a big electoral college State. Thus in practice US Presidents tend to get involved in the Middle East in there second terms when they are not running for Office. Obama cant walk on water and he needs Florida in 2012, thus in pure political terms one can see Obama throwing the Middle East Peace Process in to the long grass, that would be wise and political move.
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