This denial of possible positive diplomatic outcomes is one more example of the shortsightedness that has steered our country in such a poor direction.
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This strange and doubtful behaviour on part of the president has occurred in a situation where it will produce no tangible diplomatic outcome for 'revolutionary Iran".
But by failing to take steps to reduce tension, the British and American governments have made a diplomatic outcome less likely.
Any potential diplomatic outcome for Syria will primarily be dictated by developments on the ground and these do not bode well for a solution.
As Admiral Mullen puts it, "I am tired of interventionists picking up a stick without a strategy, without knowing the political and diplomatic outcome".
This is the segment of that exchange that aired on "Face the Nation": KERRY: We are working very hard with other interested parties to see if we can reignite a diplomatic outcome.
"There's an irony in the situation, because a hawkish position on Iran probably makes a peaceful diplomatic outcome more likely, and that could be what he was trying to do," he said.
But the Chinese role appears to be more than that of host: officials and analysts describe Beijing as determined to keep the two sides talking, first in low-level diplomatic exchanges, then perhaps in more direct negotiations between decision makers, to soften entrenched positions and force both sides to focus on how to bring about a diplomatic outcome.
Any diplomatic outcome to the terrible Syrian civil war demands a two-track response: one to end the conflict, the other to deal with the humanitarian horror of hundreds of thousands of refugees and displaced people within and without Syria, a burden now close to breaking the capacity of Jordan, the Lebanon, Iraq and even Turkey, to sustain them.
