Rice Rejects lebanese Compromise

[CHUQ]

What happened to the people deciding their future?


US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned on Friday against diplomatic moves to resolve the standoff between Lebanon's rival political camps through compromise. Rice's comments came as Lebanon's rival camps are trying to reach a deal over a successor to President Emile Lahoud, who must step down on November 24.

Parliament is set to meet on November 12 for the vote.

"I think there is a lot of talk right now about compromise," she told journalists on a plane taking her to Ankara for talks with Turkish leaders on how to deal with Kurdish rebels attacking from northern Iraq


LINK (http://dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=86497)

[Pete]

Makes you want to shake your head, if it doesnt serve US or Israeli interests, it must be wrong, weather the people want it or not.
But then again, it's not much different with internal policies, it it doesnt serve adminastration policy, then the electorate is wrong.

[iris in stones]

Oh, my God! Compromise! What an awful thing!
For a neocon, it's the worst thing, because neocons understand only conflict, and therefore want a world of it.
What is this person doing as Secretary of State?
Shouldn't she be enlisted in the Marines or something? Get her out of the diplomatic leadership.

[CHUQ]

Did I miss something? I thought self-determination was one goal of democracy.