"The message to both Assad and Moscow is that, 'You're not winning on all fronts, and we have a plan B that would make your military successes more difficult, that we can also play the protracted war scenario.' " The jockeying, however, may scuttle the long-shot peace talks even before they get off the ground.
When it comes down to the bargaining table though, once Netanyahu feels he has an honest shot at peace with security he will not let Lieberman get in his way.
A "hypothetical" where Iraqis have "a better shot" at peace is a far cry from democratic nation-building, given recent developments -- the rise of the Islamic State, for one -- that have yet to give way to stability.
In "Obama's Long Shot for Peace" (column, Feb. 1), Nicholas D. Kristof calls for an Israeli-Syrian peace deal as the "most promising route" to Middle East peace.
And he was our one shot at a peace treaty.
But unlike some of the urban animals among us, the boy who raised chickens and got married on the banks of the Roaring Fork River may have a shot at finding peace and fulfilment in the North Pomfret.
Netanyahu tried to project an air of business as usual — the relationship between the United States and Israel "has never been better," he gushed — even as Trump may have quickened the Israeli leader's pulse by saying, nonchalantly, that "we have a shot" at "doing" peace with the Palestinians.
This policy is America's best shot at forging peace in the Middle East; Congressional Democrats need to get on board.
If everyone in the entire world managed to do this simple thing, I think we would have a shot at world peace.
No politician is so naive as to think it wil be easy for these sworn political enemies to find common ground, let alone give Colombia a second shot at securing peace after so many bloody decades.
Now, some lawmakers and experts believe renewed public pressure has a shot at encouraging peace even if it does not ultimately force an up-or-down vote on the policy.
