An Example of Why We Can't Rely On The United States

I don't trust the United States judgment nor expertise in foreign affairs and diplomacy.  The following Jerusalem post Opinion article gives a good example of why.  Personally I don't like the title, but there's nothing  can do about it.  It gives the impression that there's something "unintentional," which unfortunately most probably isn't the case.  Here's the article:

Hillary Clinton’s unfortunate mistake

ITAMAR MARCUS AND NAN JACQUES ZILBERDIK
24/03/2010 10:42


This message to the Palestinian Authority from the US, if not immediately rectified, will have devastating implications for peace.


Someone in the State Department is giving Secretary of State Hillary Clinton imprecise information about Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.


On Monday night, in her speech to AIPAC, Clinton condemned Hamas for renaming “a square after a terrorist who murdered innocent Israelis,” saying it was “wrong and must be condemned.”


On the other hand Clinton “commended” PA Chairman Abbas.


Clinton’s condemnation of Hamas alone, because the municipality that named the square after the terrorist is run by Hamas, was erroneous. For in fact, it has been the Palestinian Authority and Mahmoud Abbas, not Hamas, who have been leading the Palestinians in glorifying Dalal Mughrabi, the terrorist bus hijacker who was responsible for the killing of 37 civilians in 1978, whom Clinton accurately called the “terrorist who murdered innocent Israelis.”


Palestinian Media Watch has documented the continuous Mughrabi veneration by Abbas and the Palestinian Authority in recent years, both in connection to the square near Ramallah in the West Bank and in many other contexts.


THE FOLLOWING are 15 examples of the glorification of this one particular terrorist, Dalal Mughrabi, five by Abbas himself, five by the Palestinian Authority or its leaders, and five by Fatah or its leaders:


1. It was Abbas himself who defended the naming of the square after Mughrabi: “I do not deny it. Of course we want to name a square after her.” [Al-Hayat al-Jadida, Jan. 17, 2010] for complete article click