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Originally posted by Sparhawk
That's kind of washed out with the last line:
Colin Powell sent him as a special envoy, trying to work with Abbas before that fell apart.
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By the sounds of his positions and the jobs he's taken since retiring, I suspect he will be involved in politics more directly. He also said he wouldn't leave Israel until their was a break through. He's not there and there's no peace. Not that I expected him to stay there for the next hundred years until there's peace, just pointing out that he is prone to embellishing or over emphasizing in some of his statements.
I'm not trying to criticize him, I just don't like the tone of all this. He almost certainly has a belief (not based solely on this article but other statements I have seen him make over the years) that he has a superior knowledge of the Middle East than most anyone else and if people don't listen to him, then they're wrong. Being in charge during the strikes meant to destroy the Iraqi weapons programs, he almost certainly wouldn't be proclaiming it a failure. I'm just not confident that he's being as altruistic as he seems to want everyone to think.